PT-2008-4373 · Postfix+1 · Postfix+1

Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez + 1 · Published 2008-08-14 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2008-2936

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.2

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Postfix versions prior to 2.3.15 Postfix versions 2.4 prior to 2.4.8 Postfix versions 2.5 prior to 2.5.4 Postfix versions 2.6 prior to 2.6-20080814

Description The issue 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. This can be leveraged to gain privileges if there is a symlink to an init script.

Recommendations For Postfix versions prior to 2.3.15, update to version 2.3.15 or later. For Postfix versions 2.4 prior to 2.4.8, update to version 2.4.8 or later. For Postfix versions 2.5 prior to 2.5.4, update to version 2.5.4 or later. For Postfix versions 2.6 prior to 2.6-20080814, update to version 2.6-20080814 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2936

DSA-1629-1

DSA-1629-2

DTSA-155-1

RHSA-2008:0839

RHSA-2008_0839

Affected Products

Postfix

Red Hat

References · 39

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/6337 · Exploit
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2936 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31500 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-2936 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00271.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31485 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30691 · Patch
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00287.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2936 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2936 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/636-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1629 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0839.html · Vendor Advisory