Vulnerability in Postfix
CVE-2009-2939
The postfix.postinst script in the Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu postfix 2.5.5 package grants the postfix user write access to /var/spool/postfix/pid, which might allow local users to conduct symlink attacks that overwrite arbitrary files.
EPSS: 0.005 (38.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Postfix — versions 2.5.5
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 6.06
- Ubuntu Ubuntu_linux — versions 4.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Exploit)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)