Jan Wagner uploaded new packages for mailscanner which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2010-3095 incomplete fix for CVE-2008-5313 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3095 The original text of CVE-2008-5313: 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. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5313 For the lenny-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in version 4.79.11-2.1~bpo50+1. For the unstable (sid) distribution, the problem has been fixed in version 4.79.11-2.1, for testing (squeeze) should follow the fix soon. Upgrade instructions -------------------- If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the package manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install <packagelist>" with the packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update. [1] <http://backports.debian.org/Instructions> We recommend to pin the backports repository to 200 so that new versions of installed backports will be installed automatically. Package: * Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 200
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