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 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 1.0% (63th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2929)
- Published
- August 18, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2929 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
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References
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.HISTORY
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.3.15.HISTORY
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.4.8.HISTORY
- ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.5.4.HISTORY
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31469
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31474
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31477
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31485(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31500(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31530
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32231
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4160
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0259
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1629
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/938323(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:171
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0839.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495474/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495632/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495882/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30691(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020700
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2385
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44460
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2689
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10033
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/636-1/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6337
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00271.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00287.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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