{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"moderate"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2008-2936","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"Postfix before 2.3.15, 2.4 before 2.4.8, 2.5 before 2.5.4, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814, when the operating system supports hard links to symlinks, allows local users to append e-mail messages to a file to which a root-owned symlink points, by creating a hard link to this symlink and then sending a message.  NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges if there is a symlink to an init script.","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2008-2936","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2936"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 409120 for CVE-2008-2936","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/409120"},{"category":"external","summary":"Advisory link for SUSE-SA:2008:040","url":"https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/66NPW64652TKYGGRBD6SQQBEYBBL52SJ/#66NPW64652TKYGGRBD6SQQBEYBBL52SJ"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2008-2936","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-07-08T00:33:07Z","generator":{"date":"2023-02-15T06:07:51Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2008-2936","initial_release_date":"2023-02-15T06:07:51Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2023-02-15T06:07:51Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2023-12-08T05:16:15Z","number":"3","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2023-12-09T03:38:39Z","number":"4","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-07-08T00:33:07Z","number":"5","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"5"}}}