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A vulnerability was found in mailscanner. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a link following vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-59. The product attempts to access a file based on the filename, but it does not properly prevent that filename from identifying a link or shortcut that resolves to an unintended resource. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
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.
The weakness was presented 12/03/2008 by Raphael Geissert (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2008-5312 since 12/03/2008. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.
Upgrading to version 4.69.9-3 eliminates this vulnerability.
See 45269 and 45091 for similar entries.
Product
Name
Version
- 4.55.10
- 4.56.8-1
- 4.57.7-1
- 4.58.9-1
- 4.59.4-2
- 4.60.8-1
- 4.61.7-2
- 4.62.9-3
- 4.63.8-1
- 4.64.3-2
- 4.65.3-1
- 4.66.5-3
- 4.67.6-1
- 4.68.8
- 4.68.8-1
- 4.69.9-3
- 4.70.7-1
- 4.71.10-1
- 4.72.5-1
- 4.73.4-2
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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Class: Link followingCWE: CWE-59
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OpenVAS ID: 800206
OpenVAS Name: MailScanner Multiple Insecure Temporary Files Vulnerabilities
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Upgrade: mailscanner 4.69.9-3
Timeline
12/01/2008 🔍12/03/2008 🔍
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03/17/2015 🔍
10/19/2018 🔍
Sources
Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔Researcher: Raphael Geissert
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2008-5312 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 32557 - MailScanner Multiple Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 33117
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Entry
Created: 03/17/2015 16:11Updated: 10/19/2018 08:08
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (56), 10/19/2018 08:08 (2)
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