CVE-2008-5312

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 3, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Dec 3, 2008

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
32557vdb-entry
[oss-security] 20081128 CVE id request/update: mailscanner: many scripts allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacksmailing-list
33117third-party-advisory
http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog

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