Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2008-3889. PoCs published by Albert Sellares.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a vulnerability in Postfix (CVE-2008-4042) by creating a pipe and adding it to Postfix's epoll file descriptor, causing a denial-of-service (DoS) via an endless event loop. It requires execution via a .forward file to trigger the vulnerability.
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.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a vulnerability in Postfix (CVE-2008-4042) by creating a pipe and adding it to Postfix's epoll file descriptor, causing a denial-of-service (DoS) via an endless event loop. It requires execution via a .forward file to trigger the vulnerability.