CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5313

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 4.68.8 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.

Affected configurations

• 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