SuSEConfig.postfix chroot Local DoS Attack Vulnerability

BID:3638

Info

SuSEConfig.postfix chroot Local DoS Attack Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3638
Class: Configuration Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Dec 04 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 04 2001 12:00AM
Credit: Discovered by Matthias Andree <[email protected]> and posted to the BugTraq mailing list on December 4, 2001.
Vulnerable: S.u.S.E. SuSEConfig.postfix
+ SuSE Linux 7.3
+ SuSE Linux 7.2
+ SuSE Linux 7.1
+ SuSE Linux 7.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

SuSEConfig.postfix chroot Local DoS Attack Vulnerability

SuSEConfig helps configure and reconfigure SuSE Linux systems. The SuSEConfig.postfix script is designed to set up the Postfix mail daemon, and includes the option to create a chroot environment for the Postfix processes. By default, the chroot directory is /var/spool/postfix.

Later in the script, a recursive chmod call sets all files within the /var/spool/postfix directory to be owned by the postfix user. This includes the /var/spool/postfix/maildrop/ directory, which is used by the Postfix sendmail compatibility program to insert local mail into the system. If this occurs after a message is created in this directory, but before it is rejected by the Postfix postdrop process, it will be impossible for postdrop to delete this message. As a result, disk space may be filled up by a local user, possibly leading to a DoS situation.

This is only a problem if Postfix is installed without a world writable maildrop directory, as described in the Postfix installation documentation.

Exploit / POC

SuSEConfig.postfix chroot Local DoS Attack Vulnerability

No exploit code is required to take advantage of this issue.

Solution / Fix

SuSEConfig.postfix chroot Local DoS Attack Vulnerability

Solution:
A modified SuSEConfig.postfix file has been made available by Matthias Andree, at:

http://mandree.home.pages.de/postfix/

References

SuSEConfig.postfix chroot Local DoS Attack Vulnerability

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