CVE-2008-2936 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-2936 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 409120 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:040, published Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:04:43 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:26:53 2023