Bug 459091

Summary:	CVE-2008-2936, CVE-2008-2937: Postfix local privilege escalation and mbox ownership problem
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, robert.scheck, twoerner
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00002.html
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Description Robert Scheck 2008-08-14 12:59:11 UTC

Description of problem:
Thomas Biege from SuSE/Novell describes with "SUSE Security Announcement:
postfix (SUSE-SA:2008:040)", that they've fixed a security issue (CVE-2008-
2936, CVE-2008-2937: Postfix local privilege escalation and mbox ownership 
problem) which seems to apply for all RHEL and Fedora products as well, but
I can't see a Red Hat or Fedora specific update for this; from the e-mail
from SuSE/Novell to all openSUSE, SLES and SLED customers:

--- snipp ---
1) Problem Description and Brief Discussion

   Postfix is a well known MTA.
   During a source code audit the SuSE Security-Team discovered a local
   privilege escalation bug (CVE-2008-2936) as well as a mailbox ownership
   problem (CVE-2008-2937) in postfix.
   The first bug allowed local users to execute arbitrary commands as root
   while the second one allowed local users to read other users mail.

2) Solution or Work-Around

   Please install the update package.
--- snapp ---

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Postfix <= 2.5.1 as it seems.

Actual results:
No update with fix for Red Hat and/or Fedora.

Expected results:
Update with security fix for Red Hat and Fedora.

Comment 1 Robert Scheck 2008-08-14 13:05:02 UTC

Looks like bug #456314 and bug #456347 are the corresponding bug reports on
Red Hat Bugzilla for the named CVEs. Unluckily, I only get the message "You
are not authorized" for these bug reports - maybe open it, as it is a public
issue now anyway?!

Comment 2 Robert Scheck 2008-08-14 13:06:16 UTC

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:39:29 +0200 -- I forgot, this is the date/time
where the mail was sent from SuSE.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2008-08-14 13:23:17 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 456314 ***