CVE-2008-2936
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 18, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 30, 2008
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- FEDORA-2008-8595vendor-advisory
- 32231third-party-advisory
- 31469third-party-advisory
- DSA-1629vendor-advisory
- 31530third-party-advisory
- FEDORA-2008-8593vendor-advisory
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2689
- 1020700vdb-entry
- 20080821 rPSA-2008-0259-1 postfixmailing-list
- VU#938323third-party-advisory
- [postfix-announce] 20080814 Postfix local privilege escalation via hardlinked symlinksmailing-list
- 4160third-party-advisory
- 30691vdb-entry
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0259
- SUSE-SA:2008:040vendor-advisory
- 31474third-party-advisory
- 20080831 PoCfix (PoC for Postfix local root vuln - CVE-2008-2936)mailing-list
- postfix-symlink-code-execution(44460)vdb-entry
- 6337exploit
- RHSA-2008:0839vendor-advisory
- 31500third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10033vdb-entrysignature
- 31477third-party-advisory
- 31485third-party-advisory
- USN-636-1vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2008:171vendor-advisory
- 20080814 Postfix local privilege escalation via hardlinked symlinksmailing-list
- ADV-2008-2385vdb-entry
- GLSA-200808-12vendor-advisory
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