Vulnerability Details CVE-2008-5312
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 4.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 6.9
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33117
- http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33117
- http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557
Products affected by CVE-2008-5312
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.55.10
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.56.8-1
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.57.7-1
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.58.9-1
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.59.4-2
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.60.8-1
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.61.7-2
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.62.9-3
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.63.8-1
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.64.3-2
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.65.3-1
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.66.5-3
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.67.6-1
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8-1
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.69.9-3
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.70.7-1
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.71.10-1
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.72.5-1
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cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.73.4-2