CVE-2008-5312 | BDVDB-2026-33646 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1
http://secunia.com/advisories/33117
http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12008-12-03Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-07Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.