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Scientific Linux: CVE-2008-2936 Moderate: Postfix Local Threat Fix

Calendar Aug 15, 2008 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory local threat Moderate severity postfix Scientific Linux
Moderate: postfix security update 
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:37:41 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for postfix on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: postfix security update
Issue date:	2008-08-14
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-2936

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)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
postfix-2.0.16-14.1.RHEL3.src.rpm
 i386:
postfix-2.0.16-14.1.RHEL3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
postfix-2.0.16-14.1.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
postfix-2.2.10-1.2.1.el4_7.src.rpm
 i386:
postfix-2.2.10-1.2.1.el4_7.i386.rpm
postfix-pflogsumm-2.2.10-1.2.1.el4_7.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
postfix-2.2.10-1.2.1.el4_7.x86_64.rpm
postfix-pflogsumm-2.2.10-1.2.1.el4_7.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2.src.rpm
 i386:
postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2.i386.rpm
postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm
postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson