RHSA-2008:0839: postfix security update
Description
Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL),and TLS.A flaw was found in the way Postfix dereferences symbolic links. If a localuser has write access to a mail spool directory with no root mailbox, itmay be possible for them to append arbitrary data to files that root haswrite permission to. (CVE-2008-2936)Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer for responsibly disclosingthis issue.All users of postfix should upgrade to these updated packages, whichcontain a backported patch that resolves this issue.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-postfix
- redhat-upgrade-postfix-pflogsumm
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