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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2008-08-18T19:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T09:21:34.272Z
Reserved: 2008-06-30T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2008-2936
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2008-08-18T19:41:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:48:03.190
Link: CVE-2008-2936
Redhat