CVE-2008-5312

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: 2008-12-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

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.

Affected products

mailscanner: 4.55.10, 4.56.8-1, 4.57.7-1, 4.58.9-1, 4.59.4-2, 4.60.8-1 (+14)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
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
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
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

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