CVE-2008-2936 (GCVE-0-2008-2936)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-18 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:21
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/o… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/32231 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/31469 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/o… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1629 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/31530 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2689 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020700 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495632/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/938323 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.annou… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4160 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30691 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0259 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31474 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495882/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/o… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6337 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-08… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/e… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/31500 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/31477 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/31485 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://usn.ubuntu.com/636-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495474/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2385 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
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