CVE-2008-5312

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.9
Exploit probability23. percentile0.3%
ProductMailscanner
PublishedDec 3, 2008
First seenDec 3, 2008

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mailscanner mailscanner4.55.10, 4.56.8-1, 4.57.7-1, 4.58.9-1, 4.59.4-2, 4.60.8-1, 4.61.7-2, 4.62.9-3, 4.63.8-1, 4.64.3-2, 4.65.3-1, 4.66.5-3, 4.67.6-1, 4.68.8, 4.68.8-1, 4.69.9-3, 4.70.7-1, 4.71.10-1, 4.72.5-1, 4.73.4-2—

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