Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61402
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0839
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2008:0839. Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), and TLS. A flaw was found in the way Postfix dereferences symbolic links. If a local user has write access to a mail spool directory with no root mailbox, it may be possible for them to append arbitrary data to files that root has write permission to. (CVE-2008-2936) Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer for responsibly disclosing this issue. All users of postfix should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch that resolves this issue. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0839.html http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 6.2
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2936 BugTraq ID: 30691 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30691 Bugtraq: 20080814 Postfix local privilege escalation via hardlinked symlinks (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495474/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20080821 rPSA-2008-0259-1 postfix (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495632/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20080831 PoCfix (PoC for Postfix local root vuln - CVE-2008-2936) (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495882/100/0/threaded CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#938323 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/938323 Debian Security Information: DSA-1629 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1629 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6337 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00287.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00271.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-12.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:171 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10033 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0839.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020700 http://secunia.com/advisories/31469 http://secunia.com/advisories/31474 http://secunia.com/advisories/31477 http://secunia.com/advisories/31485 http://secunia.com/advisories/31500 http://secunia.com/advisories/31530 http://secunia.com/advisories/32231 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4160 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2008:040 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/636-1/ http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2385 XForce ISS Database: postfix-symlink-code-execution(44460) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44460
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