CVE - CVE-2008-5312

CVE-ID
CVE-2008-5312	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:32557 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557 CONFIRM:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44 CONFIRM:http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog MLIST:[oss-security] 20081128 CVE id request/update: mailscanner: many scripts allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1 SECUNIA:33117 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/33117
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20081203	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20081203)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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