{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2008-08-14T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "postfix privilege escalation flaw",
    "id" : "456314",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456314"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3",
    "release_date" : "2008-08-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0839",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "postfix-2:2.0.16-14.1.RHEL3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-08-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0839",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "postfix-2:2.2.10-1.2.1.el4_7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-08-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0839",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "postfix-2:2.3.3-2.1.el5_2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2936\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2936" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-2936",
  "csaw" : false
}