- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1629-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                          Thijs Kinkhorst
August 18, 2008                       http://www.debian.org/security/faq
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package        : postfix
Vulnerability  : programming error
Problem type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2008-2936

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that Postfix, a mail transfer agent,
incorrectly checks the ownership of a mailbox. In some configurations,
this allows for appending data to arbitrary files as root.

The default Debian installation of Postfix is not affected. Only a
configuration meeting the following requirements is vulnerable:
 * The mail delivery style is mailbox, with the Postfix built-in
   local(8) or virtual(8) delivery agents.
 * The mail spool directory is user-writeable.
 * The user can create hardlinks pointing to root-owned symlinks
   located in other directories.

For a detailed treating of this issue, please refer to the upstream
author's announcement:

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.8-2etch1.

For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.2-2lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.5.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postfix package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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Architecture independent packages:

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alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

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hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

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mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

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powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

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s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

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sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

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  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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