CVE-2008-2936

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-08-14
Bugzilla:
456314: CVE-2008-2936 postfix privilege escalation flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2936 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (postfix) RHSA-2008:0839 2008-08-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (postfix) RHSA-2008:0839 2008-08-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (postfix) RHSA-2008:0839 2008-08-14

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer for responsibly disclosing this issue.

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