FKIE_CVE-2008-5312

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-12-03 17:30 - Updated: 2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/33117Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1
cve@mitre.orghttp://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/33117Vendor Advisory
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mailscanner mailscanner 4.55.10
mailscanner mailscanner 4.56.8-1
mailscanner mailscanner 4.57.7-1
mailscanner mailscanner 4.58.9-1
mailscanner mailscanner 4.59.4-2
mailscanner mailscanner 4.60.8-1
mailscanner mailscanner 4.61.7-2
mailscanner mailscanner 4.62.9-3
mailscanner mailscanner 4.63.8-1
mailscanner mailscanner 4.64.3-2
mailscanner mailscanner 4.65.3-1
mailscanner mailscanner 4.66.5-3
mailscanner mailscanner 4.67.6-1
mailscanner mailscanner 4.68.8
mailscanner mailscanner 4.68.8-1
mailscanner mailscanner 4.69.9-3
mailscanner mailscanner 4.70.7-1
mailscanner mailscanner 4.71.10-1
mailscanner mailscanner 4.72.5-1
mailscanner mailscanner 4.73.4-2
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