CVE-2008-1951

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability (sblim) libraries before 1-13a.el4_6.1 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, and before 1-31.el5_2.1 in RHEL 5, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious library in a certain subdirectory of /var/tmp, related to an incorrect RPATH setting, as demonstrated by a malicious libc.so library for tog-pegasus.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability (sblim) libraries before 1-13a.el4_6.1 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, and before 1-31.el5_2.1 in RHEL 5, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious library in a certain subdirectory of /var/tmp, related to an incorrect RPATH setting, as demonstrated by a malicious libc.so library for tog-pegasus.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

First reported 16 years ago

2008-06-25 12:36:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-29 01:30:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

5

References

30803

Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory

29913

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

1020354

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447705

Issue Tracking

redhat-sblim-privilege-escalation(43315)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9635

RHSA-2008:0497

Not Applicable

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