Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4977

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-11-06 11:00:00

Last updated 2024-09-17 00:50:31

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

postfix_groups.pl in Postfix 2.5.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/postfix_groups.stdout, (2) /tmp/postfix_groups.stderr, and (3) /tmp/postfix_groups.message temporary files. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating "This is not a real issue ... users would have to edit a script under /usr/lib to enable it.

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