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CVE-2008-2936

Date: August 18, 2008

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 Score

7.4

Related Resources (37)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31485

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495474/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32231

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2936

Url: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6337

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0839.html

Url: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.5.4.HISTORY

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31469

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31500

Url: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/938323

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/636-1/

Url: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:171

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44460

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1629

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00287.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2385

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31474

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10033

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2689

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0259

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495632/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31477

Url: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.HISTORY

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31530

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30691

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495882/100/0/threaded

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2936

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-2936

Url: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.3.15.HISTORY

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml

Url: http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4160

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00271.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020700

Url: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.4.8.HISTORY

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-2936

Severity Score

7.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2008-2936

Date: August 18, 2008

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