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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVA-2008:241

http://www.mandriva.com/security/

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Package : mailscanner

Date : December 22, 2008

Affected: Corporate 4.0

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Problem Description:

 

Local users can use symlink attacks throughout a flaw on

trend-autoupdate script of MailScanner by using /tmp/opr.ini.#####

or /tmp/lpt temporary file (CVE-2008-5140).

 

Local users can use symlink attacks throughout flaws on

clamav-autoupdate, panda-autoupdate and rav-autoupdate scripts of

MailScanner by using ClamAV.update.log, pav.zip and RavBusy.lock

temporary files (CVE-2008-5312).

 

Local users can use symlink attacks throughout flaws on

kaspersky-wrapper, bitdefender-wrapper, rav-wrapper scripts and

Quarentine.pm, TNEF.pm, SA.pm, WorkArea.pm MailScanner perl modules

by using kavoutput.tmp.27073, log.bdc.27073, report.vir.27073,

MailScanner.ownertest.27073, tnef.27073 and MS.bayes.rebuild.lock

temporary files (CVE-2008-5313).

 

Further MailScanner had symlink flaws on antivir-autoupdate,

bitdefender-autoupdate, clamav-autoupdate, etrust-autoupdate,

generic-autoupdate, inoculan-autoupdate, kaspersky-autoupdate,

nod32-autoupdate, norman-autoupdate, rav-autoupdate,

sophos-autoupdate, symscanengine-autoupdate, vexira-autoupdate,

f-prot-autoupdate and css-autoupdate scripts under following

temporary vulnerable files: AntiVirBusy.lock, BitDefenderBusy.lock,

ClamAVBusy.lock, eTrustBusy.lock, GenericBusy.lock, InoculanBusy.lock,

KasperskyBusy.lock, Nod32Busy.lock, NormanBusy.lock, RavBusy.lock,

SophosBusy.lock, SymScanEngineBusy.lock, VexiraBusy.lock,

FProtBusy.lock and SYMCScan.lock.

 

This update provides fix for all symlink flaws described on this

security advisory.

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References:

 

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5140

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5312

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5313

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Updated Packages:

 

Corporate 4.0:

4e93bc7c48ec8f65122d263237b99ec9 corporate/4.0/i586/mailscanner-4.55.9_1-3.1.20060mlcs4.noarch.rpm

f92acdbed4f63778609726eaa2dc8fd1 corporate/4.0/i586/mailscanner-spamassassin-4.55.9_1-3.1.20060mlcs4.noarch.rpm

35f1b7e0cc1534def4394e7bec95ab48 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/mailscanner-4.55.9_1-3.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

 

Corporate 4.0/X86_64:

4e93bc7c48ec8f65122d263237b99ec9 corporate/4.0/x86_64/mailscanner-4.55.9_1-3.1.20060mlcs4.noarch.rpm

f92acdbed4f63778609726eaa2dc8fd1 corporate/4.0/x86_64/mailscanner-spamassassin-4.55.9_1-3.1.20060mlcs4.noarch.rpm

35f1b7e0cc1534def4394e7bec95ab48 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/mailscanner-4.55.9_1-3.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification

of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the

GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

 

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

 

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

 

security_(at)_mandriva.com

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