CVE-2008-2937 (GCVE-0-2008-2937)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-18 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:21
VLAI
Summary
Postfix 2.5 before 2.5.4 and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814 delivers to a mailbox file even when this file is not owned by the recipient, which allows local users to read e-mail messages by creating a mailbox file corresponding to another user's account name.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32231 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/o… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-04… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=conte… x_refsource_CONFIRM
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/e… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/31500 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2008-08-14 00:00
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