CentOS Update for postfix CESA-2008:0839 centos3 x86_64. A flaw in Postfix may allow local users to append arbitrary data to files with root write permission
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 67 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Privilege Escalation | 10 Apr 202000:26 | – | veracode |
![]() | RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : postfix (RHSA-2008:0839) | 15 Aug 200800:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : postfix vulnerability (USN-636-1) | 20 Aug 200800:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Scientific Linux Security Update : postfix on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64 | 1 Aug 201200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Debian DSA-1629-2 : postfix - programming error | 19 Aug 200800:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : postfix (MDVSA-2008:171) | 23 Apr 200900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : postfix (CESA-2008:0839) | 15 Aug 200800:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Oracle Linux 5 : post (ELSA-2008-0839) | 12 Jul 201300:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | openSUSE 10 Security Update : postfix (postfix-5501) | 15 Aug 200800:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | SuSE9 Security Update : Postfix (YOU Patch Number 12219) | 24 Sep 200900:00 | – | nessus |
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# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
#
# CentOS Update for postfix CESA-2008:0839 centos3 x86_64
#
# Authors:
# System Generated Check
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net
#
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
# (or any later version), as published by the Free Software Foundation.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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#
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include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "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.";
tag_affected = "postfix on CentOS 3";
tag_solution = "Please Install the Updated Packages.";
if(description)
{
script_xref(name : "URL" , value : "http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-August/015186.html");
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.880023");
script_version("$Revision: 9370 $");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2018-04-06 10:53:14 +0200 (Fri, 06 Apr 2018) $");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-02-27 09:02:20 +0100 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.2");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_xref(name: "CESA", value: "2008:0839");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2936");
script_name( "CentOS Update for postfix CESA-2008:0839 centos3 x86_64");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Check for the Version of postfix");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/centos", "ssh/login/rpms");
script_tag(name : "affected" , value : tag_affected);
script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = get_kb_item("ssh/login/release");
res = "";
if(release == NULL){
exit(0);
}
if(release == "CentOS3")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"postfix", rpm:"postfix~2.0.16~14.1.RHEL3", rls:"CentOS3")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
exit(0);
}
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