[Simon Walter] Re: Bug#506353: mailscanner: many scripts allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files, and more, via symlink attacks

[Julian Field]

On 9/12/08 14:43, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> 2008/12/9<simon.walter at hp-factory.de>:
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>>> On 9/12/08 11:58, simon.walter at hp-factory.de wrote:
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>>>> Did you read my first mail which started thsi thread?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Yes.
>>> What would you recommend as the best solution to the problem?
>>>        
>> In short: I can't fix it, would be nice if you could fix it.
>>
>> I'll just quote my comment to the debian-bugreport:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#13
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>> Simon
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> Jules
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> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5313
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> seems to have a comprehensive list of the other files involved.
>
>    
Yes, it does, I can run "grep" too. But they still don't explain 
precisely what the problem actually is nor have any suggestions on how I 
should correctly fix it.

Jules

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