CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5312

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2008-12-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-12-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

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.

Affected configurations

• 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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References