cvelist/2008/5xxx/CVE-2008-5312.json

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        "ID": "CVE-2008-5312",
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    "description": {
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                "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."
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            {
                "name": "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44",
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            {
                "name": "32557",
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                "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557"
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            {
                "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"
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            {
                "name": "33117",
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            {
                "name": "http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog",
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