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Postfix Symlink Handling and Destination Ownership Security Issues

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SA31485

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Release Date:

2008-08-14

Last Update:

2008-08-19

Popularity:

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Postfix 2.x

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Solution:
Update to version 2.5.4 Patchlevel 4.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Sebastian Krahmer, SuSE

Changelog:
2008-08-15: Added additional information provided by the vendor. Added link to Postfix advisory.
2008-08-19: Added link to US-CERT.

Original Advisory:
SuSE:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html

Postfix:
http://de.postfix.org/ftpmirror/official/postfix-2.5.4.HISTORY
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110

Other References:
US-CERT VU#938323:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/938323

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