Vulnerability CVE-2008-5312
Published: 2008-12-03   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-59

 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Mailscanner -> Mailscanner 

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