cve/2008/CVE-2008-4987.md

### [CVE-2008-4987](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4987)
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### Description

xastir 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (a) /tmp/ldconfig.tmp, (b) /tmp/ldconf.tmp, and (c) /tmp/ld.so.conf temporary files, related to the (1) get-maptools.sh and (2) get_shapelib.sh scripts.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.