CVE-2008-5313 (GCVE-0-2008-5313)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-03 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:49
VLAI
Summary
mailscanner 4.68.8 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) avast-autoupdate, and (4) f-prot-6-autoupdate scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate/; the (5) bitdefender-wrapper, (6) kaspersky-wrapper, (7) clamav-wrapper, and (8) rav-wrapper scripts in /etc/MailScanner/wrapper/; the (9) Quarantine.pm, (10) TNEF.pm, (11) MessageBatch.pm, (12) WorkArea.pm, and (13) SA.pm scripts in /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/; (14) /usr/sbin/MailScanner; and (15) scripts that load the /etc/MailScanner/mailscanner.conf.with.mcp configuration file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2324 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/33117 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2008-11-28 00:00
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