CVE-2008-1951

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.6 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2008-06-25

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/30803
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29913
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020354
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447705
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43315
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9635
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0497.html