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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.69.9-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.70.7-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.71.10-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.72.5-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.73.4-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2008-12-03 17:30

Updated : 2024-02-28 11:21


NVD link : CVE-2008-5313

Mitre link : CVE-2008-5313

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2008-5313


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Products Affected

mailscanner

  • mailscanner
CWE
CWE-59

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