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CVE-2008-5313

• 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 4.68.8 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) avast-autoupdate, and (4) f-prot-6-autoupdate scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate/; the (5) bitdefender-wrapper, (6) kaspersky-wrapper, (7) clamav-wrapper, and (8) rav-wrapper scripts in /etc/MailScanner/wrapper/; the (9) Quarantine.pm, (10) TNEF.pm, (11) MessageBatch.pm, (12) WorkArea.pm, and (13) SA.pm scripts in /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/; (14) /usr/sbin/MailScanner; and (15) scripts that load the /etc/MailScanner/mailscanner.conf.with.mcp configuration file.

Affected products

• mailscanner: 4.68.8, 4.68.8-1, 4.69.9-3, 4.70.7-1, 4.71.10-1, 4.72.5-1 (+1)

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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