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Vulnerability CVE-2008-5313
Published: 2008-12-03 Modified: 2012-02-12
| 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. |
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 |
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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