CVE-2008-5312

Publication date 3 December 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
mailscanner 11.10 oneiric Not in release
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
7.10 gutsy Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life

Notes

kees

same as CVE-2008-5313?

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