CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2936
6.2 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Postfix before 2.3.15, 2.4 before 2.4.8, 2.5 before 2.5.4, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814, when the operating system supports hard links to symlinks, allows local users to append e-mail messages to a file to which a root-owned symlink points, by creating a hard link to this symlink and then sending a message. NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges if there is a symlink to an init script.
Affected configurations
• postfix postfix 2.3.0
• postfix postfix 2.3.1
• postfix postfix 2.3.2
• postfix postfix 2.3.3
• postfix postfix 2.3.4
• postfix postfix 2.3.5
• postfix postfix 2.3.6
• postfix postfix 2.3.7
• postfix postfix 2.3.8
• postfix postfix 2.3.9
• postfix postfix 2.3.10
• postfix postfix 2.3.11
• postfix postfix 2.3.12
• postfix postfix 2.3.13
• postfix postfix 2.3.14
• postfix postfix 2.4.0
• postfix postfix 2.4.1
• postfix postfix 2.4.2
• postfix postfix 2.4.3
• postfix postfix 2.4.4
• postfix postfix 2.4.5
• postfix postfix 2.4.6
• postfix postfix 2.4.7
• postfix postfix 2.5.0
• postfix postfix 2.5.1
• postfix postfix 2.5.2
• postfix postfix 2.5.3
• postfix postfix 2.6.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.HISTORY ftp.porcupine.org
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.3.15.HISTORY ftp.porcupine.org
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.4.8.HISTORY ftp.porcupine.org
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.5.4.HISTORY ftp.porcupine.org
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110 article.gmane.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31469 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31474 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31477 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31485 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31500 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31530 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32231 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4160 securityreason.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0259 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1629 www.debian.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/938323 US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:171 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0839.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495474/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495632/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495882/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30691 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020700 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2385 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44460 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2689 issues.rpath.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10033 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/636-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6337 www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00271.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00287.html www.redhat.com
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.HISTORY ftp.porcupine.org
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.3.15.HISTORY ftp.porcupine.org
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.4.8.HISTORY ftp.porcupine.org
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.5.4.HISTORY ftp.porcupine.org
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110 article.gmane.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31469 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31474 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31477 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31485 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31500 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31530 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32231 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4160 securityreason.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0259 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1629 www.debian.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/938323 US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:171 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0839.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495474/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495632/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495882/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30691 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020700 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2385 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44460 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2689 issues.rpath.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10033 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/636-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6337 www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00271.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00287.html www.redhat.com