National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2008-2937)

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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):

CVSS v2 Base Score:1.9 (LOW) (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) (legend)

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

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/19/2008): 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/

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External Source: BID

Name: 30691

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30691

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31500

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31500

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-8593

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00287.html

External Source: FEDORA