CVE-2008-5312

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.

Date published : 2008-12-03

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557

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