CVE-2008-2936
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Published: August 18, 2008 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:54 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPostfix
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1.0%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (33)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.HISTORYx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.3.15.HISTORYx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.4.8.HISTORYx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.5.4.HISTORYMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264
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