CVE-2008-5313

2008-12-0300:00:00

ubuntu.com

6.9 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.3%

JSON

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.