6.2 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
18.1%
Updated postfix packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), and TLS.
A flaw was found in the way Postfix dereferences symbolic links. If a local user has write access to a mail spool directory with no root mailbox, it may be possible for them to append arbitrary data to files that root has write permission to. (CVE-2008-2936)
Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer for responsibly disclosing this issue.
All users of postfix should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch that resolves this issue.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0839 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0839 respectively.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(33890);
script_version("1.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2936");
script_bugtraq_id(30691);
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2008:0839");
script_name(english:"CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : postfix (CESA-2008:0839)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Updated postfix packages that fix a security issue are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH
(SASL), and TLS.
A flaw was found in the way Postfix dereferences symbolic links. If a
local user has write access to a mail spool directory with no root
mailbox, it may be possible for them to append arbitrary data to files
that root has write permission to. (CVE-2008-2936)
Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer for responsibly
disclosing this issue.
All users of postfix should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch that resolves this issue."
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-August/015185.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?0e846042"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-August/015186.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?0f99e39b"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-August/015187.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?040893ac"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-August/015188.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?049939bc"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-August/015197.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?794c4583"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-August/015199.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b71a314a"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected postfix packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");
script_cwe_id(264);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:postfix");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:postfix-pflogsumm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2008/08/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/08/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/08/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(3|4|5)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 3.x / 4.x / 5.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && "ia64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"postfix-2.0.16-14.1.RHEL3")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"ia64", reference:"postfix-2.2.10-1.2.1.c4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"ia64", reference:"postfix-pflogsumm-2.2.10-1.2.1.c4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "postfix / postfix-pflogsumm");
}