National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2937
Original release date:08/18/2008
Last revised:02/10/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Postfix 2.5 before 2.5.4 and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814 delivers to a mailbox file even when this file is not owned by the recipient, which allows local users to read e-mail messages by creating a mailbox file corresponding to another user's account name.
Description
Please refer to the following links for additional version information (vendor release notes):
Postfix 2.5 - ftp://mirrors.loonybin.net/pub/postfix/official/postfix-2.5.4.RELEASE_NOTES
Postfix 2.6 - ftp://mirrors.loonybin.net/pub/postfix/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.RELEASE_NOTES
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/19/2008)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=456347
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: BID
Name: 30691
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31500
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-8593
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-8595
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2689
External Source: XF
Name: postfix-email-information-disclosure(44461)
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080821 rPSA-2008-0259-1 postfix
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2385
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0259
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200808-12
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32231
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31485
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31477
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:040
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.5.4.HISTORY
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.HISTORY