CVE-2008-2936

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…

published August 18, 2008

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
62.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00993 · 62.0th percentile
Published
2008-08-18T19:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 AUG 19:00Z
    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…
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