CVE-2008-3278

frysk packages through 2008-08-05 as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are built with an insecure RPATH set in the ELF header of multiple binaries in /usr/bin/f* (e.g. fcore, fcatch, fstack, fstep, ...) shipped in the package. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by running arbitrary code as another user.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-11-07

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-1188

Affected products

• Frysk (Frysk)
• Frysk (Redhat)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-3278
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3278
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3278