Vulnerability Details CVE-2008-5313
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.
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-2008-5313
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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