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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2936

Published: Aug 18, 2008 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.2 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2936
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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 Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PostfixPostfix2.3.0 (including)2.3.0 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.1 (including)2.3.1 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.2 (including)2.3.2 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.3 (including)2.3.3 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.4 (including)2.3.4 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.5 (including)2.3.5 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.6 (including)2.3.6 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.7 (including)2.3.7 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.8 (including)2.3.8 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.9 (including)2.3.9 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.10 (including)2.3.10 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.11 (including)2.3.11 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.12 (including)2.3.12 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.13 (including)2.3.13 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.3.14 (including)2.3.14 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.4.0 (including)2.4.0 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.4.1 (including)2.4.1 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.4.2 (including)2.4.2 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.4.3 (including)2.4.3 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.4.4 (including)2.4.4 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.4.5 (including)2.4.5 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.4.6 (including)2.4.6 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.4.7 (including)2.4.7 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.5.0 (including)2.5.0 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.5.1 (including)2.5.1 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.5.2 (including)2.5.2 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.5.3 (including)2.5.3 (including)
PostfixPostfix2.6.0 (including)2.6.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3RedHatpostfix-2:2.0.16-14.1.RHEL3*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHatpostfix-2:2.2.10-1.2.1.el4_7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatpostfix-2:2.3.3-2.1.el5_2*
PostfixUbuntudapper*
PostfixUbuntufeisty*
PostfixUbuntugutsy*
PostfixUbuntuhardy*
PostfixUbuntuupstream*

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