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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2936
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-2936

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44460

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-636-1

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html

ST
  1020700

SREASON
  http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4160

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA31469
  Secunia Advisory: SA31500
  Secunia Advisory: SA31485
  Secunia Advisory: SA31477
  Secunia Advisory: SA31530
  Secunia Advisory: SA31474
  Secunia Advisory: SA32231

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0839.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10033

MLIST
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110

MILW0RM
  http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6337

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:171

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml

FEDORA

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1629

CONFIRM
  http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0259

CERT-VN
  938323

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495632/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495882/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495474/100/0/threaded

BID
  30691


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