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.

🔗 References (10)

• cve@mitrehttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/33117
• cve@mitrehttp://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
• cve@mitrehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1
• cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/33117
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557