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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.

  • Published: Aug 18, 2008
  • Updated: Nov 8, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2008-2936
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.2
  • AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
postfix / postfix 2.5.0 2.5.0.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.11 2.3.11.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.6 2.3.6.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.0 2.3.0.x
postfix / postfix 2.5.2 2.5.2.x
postfix / postfix 2.4.0 2.4.0.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.12 2.3.12.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.10 2.3.10.x
postfix / postfix 2.4.5 2.4.5.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.9 2.3.9.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.2 2.3.2.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.7 2.3.7.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.14 2.3.14.x
postfix / postfix 2.4.3 2.4.3.x
postfix / postfix 2.5.3 2.5.3.x
postfix / postfix 2.6.0 2.6.0.x
postfix / postfix 2.4.7 2.4.7.x
postfix / postfix 2.4.2 2.4.2.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.4 2.3.4.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.3 2.3.3.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.1 2.3.1.x
postfix / postfix 2.5.1 2.5.1.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.8 2.3.8.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.5 2.3.5.x
postfix / postfix 2.4.1 2.4.1.x
postfix / postfix 2.4.6 2.4.6.x
postfix / postfix 2.4.4 2.4.4.x
postfix / postfix 2.3.13 2.3.13.x