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>> MailScanner "trend-autoupdate" Insecure Temporary File Vulnerability
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Title : MailScanner "trend-autoupdate" Insecure Temporary File Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-3211
CVE ID : CVE-2008-5140
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-11-21
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A vulnerability has been identified in MailScanner, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in the "trend-autoupdate.new" script when handling temporary files, which could allow malicious users to conduct symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the vulnerable application.
Affected Products
MailScanner version 4.55.10 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3211
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00285.html
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Dmitry E. Oboukhov.
ChangeLog
2008-11-21 : Initial release
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