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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-12-03T17:00:00

Updated: 2009-02-05T10:00:00

Reserved: 2008-12-03T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2008-5312

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2008-12-03T17:30:00.430

Modified: 2010-12-28T05:00:00.000


Link: CVE-2008-5312

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