CVE-2008-5313

MediumCVSS 6.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.9/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Dec 3, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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