CVE-2008-5313 Information

Description

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.

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