CVE-2008-2936

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-08-18

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.

See more information about CVE-2008-2936 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	6.2	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (postfix)	ELSA-2008-0839	2008-08-14
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (postfix)	ELSA-2008-0839	2008-08-14
Oracle Linux version 5 (postfix)	ELSA-2008-0839	2008-08-14

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