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.
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Published : 2008-08-18 19:41
Updated : 2023-11-07 02:02
NVD link : CVE-2008-2936
Mitre link : CVE-2008-2936
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2008-2936
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Products Affected
postfix
- postfix
CWE
CWE-264
Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls