CVE-2008-2936

Severity

62%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

165%

Please refer to the following links for additional version information (vendor release notes): Postfix 2.3 - ftp://mirrors.loonybin.net/pub/postfix/official/postfix-2.3.15.RELEASE_NOTES Postfix 2.4 - ftp://mirrors.loonybin.net/pub/postfix/official/postfix-2.4.8.RELEASE_NOTES Postfix 2.5 - ftp://mirrors.loonybin.net/pub/postfix/official/postfix-2.5.4.RELEASE_NOTES Postfix 2.6 - ftp://mirrors.loonybin.net/pub/postfix/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.RELEASE_NOTES

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.

Please refer to the following links for additional version information (vendor release notes): Postfix 2.3 - ftp://mirrors.loonybin.net/pub/postfix/official/postfix-2.3.15.RELEASE_NOTES Postfix 2.4 - ftp://mirrors.loonybin.net/pub/postfix/official/postfix-2.4.8.RELEASE_NOTES Postfix 2.5 - ftp://mirrors.loonybin.net/pub/postfix/official/postfix-2.5.4.RELEASE_NOTES Postfix 2.6 - ftp://mirrors.loonybin.net/pub/postfix/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.RELEASE_NOTES

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

postfix

First reported 16 years ago

2008-08-18 19:41:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-11 20:45:00

Affected Software

postfix 2.3.0

2.3.0

postfix 2.3.1

2.3.1

postfix 2.3.2

2.3.2

postfix 2.3.3

2.3.3

postfix 2.3.4

2.3.4

postfix 2.3.5

2.3.5

postfix 2.3.6

2.3.6

postfix 2.3.7

2.3.7

postfix 2.3.8

2.3.8

postfix 2.3.9

2.3.9

postfix 2.3.10

2.3.10

postfix 2.3.11

2.3.11

postfix 2.3.12

2.3.12

postfix 2.3.13

2.3.13

postfix 2.3.14

2.3.14

postfix 2.4.0

2.4.0

postfix 2.4.1

2.4.1

postfix 2.4.2

2.4.2

postfix 2.4.3

2.4.3

postfix 2.4.4

2.4.4

postfix 2.4.5

2.4.5

postfix 2.4.6

2.4.6

postfix 2.4.7

2.4.7

postfix 2.5.0

2.5.0

postfix 2.5.1

2.5.1

postfix 2.5.2

2.5.2

postfix 2.5.3

2.5.3

postfix 2.6.0

2.6.0

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