{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2008-5312", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44" }, { "name": "32557", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20081128 CVE id request/update: mailscanner: many scripts allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1" }, { "name": "33117", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/33117" }, { "name": "http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog" } ] } }