CVE-2008-1951

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-06-24
CWE:
CWE-426
Bugzilla:
447705: CVE-2008-1951 sblim: libraries built with insecure RPATH

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-1951 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 7.2
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (sblim) RHSA-2008:0497 2008-06-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (sblim) RHSA-2008:0497 2008-06-24

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