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DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2936

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2936 PUBLISHED

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

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12postfix0, 0, 0
Debian:13postfix0, 0, 0
Debian:14postfix0, 0, 0
Debian:11postfix0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Aug 18, 2008 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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