CVE-2008-3889 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-3889 at MITRE

Description

Postfix 2.4 before 2.4.9, 2.5 before 2.5.5, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080902, when used with the Linux 2.6 kernel, leaks epoll file descriptors during execution of "non-Postfix" commands, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (application slowdown or exit) via a crafted command, as demonstrated by a command in a .forward file.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 421847 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:018, published Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:29:02 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:27:51 2023