CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-1951

Published: Jun 25, 2008 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
7.2 IMPORTANT
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Enterprise_linux Redhat 4 (including) 4 (including)
Enterprise_linux Redhat 5 (including) 5 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat sblim-0:1-13a.el4_6.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat sblim-0:1-31.el5_2.1 *

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