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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/33117
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1
Scores
EPSS
0.0031
EPSS Percentile
22.0%
Details
CWE
CWE-59
Status
published
Products (20)
mailscanner/mailscanner
4.55.10
mailscanner/mailscanner
4.56.8-1
mailscanner/mailscanner
4.57.7-1
mailscanner/mailscanner
4.58.9-1
mailscanner/mailscanner
4.59.4-2
mailscanner/mailscanner
4.60.8-1
mailscanner/mailscanner
4.61.7-2
mailscanner/mailscanner
4.62.9-3
mailscanner/mailscanner
4.63.8-1
mailscanner/mailscanner
4.64.3-2
... and 10 more
Published
Dec 03, 2008
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026