| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 78 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postfix <= 2.6-20080814 (symlink) Local Privilege Escalation Exploit | 31 Aug 200800:00 | – | zdt | |
| CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : postfix (CESA-2008:0839) | 15 Aug 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian DSA-1629-2 : postfix - programming error | 19 Aug 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 9 : postfix-2.5.5-1.fc9 (2008-8593) | 10 Oct 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 8 : postfix-2.5.5-1.fc8 (2008-8595) | 10 Oct 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| GLSA-200808-12 : Postfix: Local privilege escalation vulnerability | 15 Aug 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : postfix (MDVSA-2008:171) | 23 Apr 200900:00 | – | nessus | |
| NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 : postfix Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2025-0220) | 30 Sep 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 (SP) : postfix Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2026-0024) | 6 Mar 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| Oracle Linux 5 : post (ELSA-2008-0839) | 12 Jul 201300:00 | – | nessus |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# Miracle Linux Security Advisory AXSA:2008-88:01.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(284139);
script_version("1.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/02/12");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2936");
script_name(english:"MiracleLinux 3 : postfix-2.3.3-2.9AXS3 (AXSA:2008-88:01)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote MiracleLinux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
AXSA:2008-88:01 advisory.
Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL),
and TLS.
CVE-2008-2936:
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.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/185");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected postfix and / or postfix-pflogsumm 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:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2008-2936");
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_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_severity", value:"High");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2008/08/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/09/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2026/01/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:postfix");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:postfix-pflogsumm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:miracle:linux:3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Miracle Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2026 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/MiracleLinux/release", "Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm2.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_product = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/product');
if (isnull(os_product) || 'MIRACLE LINUX' >!< os_product) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'MIRACLE LINUX');
var os_version = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/version');
if (isnull(os_version)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'MIRACLE LINUX');
if (! preg(pattern:"^3([^0-9]|$)", string:os_version)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'MiracleLinux 3.x', 'MIRACLE LINUX ' + os_version);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu && 's390' >!< cpu && 'x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'MIRACLE LINUX', cpu);
var constraints = [
{
'release': '3',
'pkgs': [
{'reference':'postfix-2.3.3-2.9AXS3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'0'},
{'reference':'postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-2.9AXS3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'0'}
]
}
];
var os_release = get_one_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/release');
var os_sp = get_one_kb_item('Host/*/minor_release');
var flag = 0;
var reference;
var sp;
var _cpu;
var el_string;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp;
var epoch;
var allowmaj;
var exists_check;
var cves;
foreach var constraint ( constraints ) {
# Check that the target release is equal to the affected release
if (!empty_or_null(constraint['release'])){
if (constraint['release'] != os_release) continue;
}
if (!empty_or_null(constraint['sp'])){
if (constraint['sp'] != os_sp) continue;
}
foreach var pkg ( constraint['pkgs'] ) {
reference = NULL;
sp = NULL;
_cpu = NULL;
el_string = NULL;
rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
epoch = NULL;
allowmaj = NULL;
exists_check = NULL;
cves = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['reference'])) reference = pkg['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cpu'])) _cpu = pkg['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['el_string'])) el_string = pkg['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['epoch'])) epoch = pkg['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = pkg['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
if (reference &&
## (no known rpm to check OR known rpm_exists)
(!exists_check || rpm_exists(rpm:exists_check)) &&
rpm_check(sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'postfix / postfix-pflogsumm');
}
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