CVE-2008-5140

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

trend-autoupdate.new in mailscanner 4.55.10 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/opr.ini.##### or (2) /tmp/lpt*.zip temporary file.

Affected products

Debian Mailscanner: 4.55.10

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00285.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32730
http://secunia.com/advisories/33117
http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32376
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46725
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00285.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32730
http://secunia.com/advisories/33117
http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog

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