PT-2008-6438 · Julian Field · Mailscanner

Raphael Geissert · Published 2008-12-03 · Updated 2010-12-28 · CVE-2008-5312

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MailScanner versions 4.55.10 through 4.74.16-1

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on certain temporary files used by the scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate/, including f-prot-autoupdate, clamav-autoupdate, panda-autoupdate.new, trend-autoupdate.new, and rav-autoupdate.new.

Recommendations For MailScanner versions 4.55.10 through 4.74.16-1, update to version 4.74.16-1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate/ to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5312

Affected Products

Mailscanner

References · 6

• http://secunia.com/advisories/33117 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5312 · Security Note
• http://mailscanner.info/ChangeLog · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32557 · Note