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Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2008:171 ] postfix

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LinuxSecurity.com: Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team discovered a flaw in the way Postfix dereferenced symbolic links. If a local user had write access to a mail spool directory without a root mailbox file, it could be possible for them to append arbitrary data to files that root had write permissions to (CVE-2008-2936).




Original Source: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/141166?rdf

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