CVE-2008-5312

mailscanner 4.55.10 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on certain temporary files used by the (1) f-prot-autoupdate, (2) clamav-autoupdate, (3) panda-autoupdate.new, (4) trend-autoupdate.new, and (5) rav-autoupdate.new scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5140.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-12-03

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Mailscanner (Mailscanner)

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33117
• http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557