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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 3, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2008-5312

CVE-2008-5312

Description

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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Affected products

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  • Mailscanner/Mailscanner21 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.55.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 20 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.55.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.56.8-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.57.7-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.58.9-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.59.4-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.60.8-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.61.7-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.62.9-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.63.8-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.64.3-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.65.3-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.66.5-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.67.6-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.69.9-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.70.7-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.71.10-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.72.5-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.73.4-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: <4.74.16-1

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