CVE-2008-2936
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...
- Published
- Aug 18, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Evidence observed
- Aug 31, 2008
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 60.6%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1RoMaNSoFt · linux · Aug 31, 2008
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