Bug 481702 (CVE-2008-5703)

Summary:	CVE-2008-5703 gpsdrive: insecure temporary file use in gpssmswatch and splash.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	kevin
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5703
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Description Tomas Hoger 2009-01-27 08:39:01 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-5703 to the following vulnerability:

gpsdrive (aka gpsdrive-scripts) 2.10~pre4 allows local users to overwrite
arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (a) /tmp/.smswatch or (b)
/tmp/gpsdrivepos temporary file, related to (1) examples/gpssmswatch and (2)
src/splash.c, different vectors than CVE-2008-4959 and CVE-2008-5380. 

References:
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/15
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508597
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2121124&group_id=148048&atid=770280
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32887

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2009-01-27 08:41:02 UTC

Upstream fixes:

gpssmswatch was removed in:
http://gpsdrive.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gpsdrive?view=rev&revision=2204

src/splash.c was fixed via:
http://gpsdrive.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gpsdrive?view=rev&revision=2194
http://gpsdrive.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gpsdrive?view=rev&revision=2195

Comment 2 Kevin Fenzi 2009-02-03 03:53:51 UTC

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gpsdrive/devel/gpsdrive-2.09-CVE-2008-5703.patch?view=co

Checked into rawhide and built. 
Does that look ok? If so, I will push F9/F10 builds/updates.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-02-05 02:10:17 UTC

gpsdrive-2.09-7.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-02-05 02:22:35 UTC

gpsdrive-2.09-7.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.