CVE-2008-2936
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
6.1 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
17.9%
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.
Affected configurations
References
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.HISTORY
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.3.15.HISTORY
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.4.8.HISTORY
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.5.4.HISTORY
article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html
secunia.com/advisories/31469
secunia.com/advisories/31474
secunia.com/advisories/31477
secunia.com/advisories/31485
secunia.com/advisories/31500
secunia.com/advisories/31530
secunia.com/advisories/32231
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml
securityreason.com/securityalert/4160
wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0259
www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1629
www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/938323
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:171
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0839.html
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495474/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495632/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495882/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/30691
www.securitytracker.com/id?1020700
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2385
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44460
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2689
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10033
usn.ubuntu.com/636-1/
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6337
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00271.html
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00287.html
Related
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
6.1 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
17.9%