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CVE-2008-2936

CVE-2008-2936

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.0%
exploitation probability
1.0%top 41% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
cve_reference✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/6337
⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.HISTORYftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.3.15.HISTORYftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.4.8.HISTORYftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.5.4.HISTORYhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31469http://secunia.com/advisories/31474http://secunia.com/advisories/31477http://secunia.com/advisories/31485http://secunia.com/advisories/31500http://secunia.com/advisories/31530