CVE-2008-5312 (GCVE-0-2008-5312)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-03 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:49
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Summary
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.
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