CVE-2008-5312 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=50635344 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