ghsa-8739-vxjm-m9p4
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-03 03:19
Modified
2022-05-03 03:19
Details

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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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2008-2936"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2008-08-18T19:41:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-8739-vxjm-m9p4",
  "modified": "2022-05-03T03:19:19Z",
  "published": "2022-05-03T03:19:19Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2936"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44460"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2689"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10033"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/636-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6337"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00271.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00287.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/31469"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/31474"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/31477"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/31485"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/31500"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/31530"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/32231"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4160"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0259"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1629"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/938323"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:171"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0839.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495474/100/0/threaded"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495632/100/0/threaded"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495882/100/0/threaded"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30691"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020700"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2385"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}


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