DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2936

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2936

    Published: 18 Aug 2008Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2008-2936

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2936

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: postfix

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/postfix?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.5.4-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High