CVE-2008-2936

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.
References
Link Resource
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.HISTORY
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.3.15.HISTORY
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.4.8.HISTORY
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.5.4.HISTORY
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30691 Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/31485 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31500 Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/938323 US Government Resource
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020700
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/31469
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0839.html
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110
http://secunia.com/advisories/31477
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:171
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1629
http://secunia.com/advisories/31530
http://secunia.com/advisories/31474
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2689
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0259
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4160
http://secunia.com/advisories/32231
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00287.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00271.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2385
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44460
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6337
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10033
https://usn.ubuntu.com/636-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495882/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495632/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495474/100/0/threaded
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:2.3.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2008-08-18 07:41

Updated : 2023-02-13 02:19


NVD link : CVE-2008-2936

Mitre link : CVE-2008-2936

Products Affected
No products.
CWE