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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 Total
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
- securityfocus.com: 32557 vdb-entry
- openwall.com: [oss-security] 20081128 CVE id request/update: mailscanner: many scripts allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks mailing-list
- secunia.com: 33117 third-party-advisory
- http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
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References 5 Total
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44 x_transferred
- securityfocus.com: 32557 vdb-entryx_transferred
- openwall.com: [oss-security] 20081128 CVE id request/update: mailscanner: many scripts allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks mailing-listx_transferred
- secunia.com: 33117 third-party-advisoryx_transferred
- http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog x_transferred