CVE-2008-2936

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

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

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