Summary
The remote host is missing an update to postfix
announced via advisory DSA 1629-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201629-1
Insight
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:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110
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.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-2936 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.2
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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