Vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux
CVE-2008-0884
The Replace function in the capp-lspp-config script in the (1) lspp-eal4-config-ibm and (2) capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages before 0.65-2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 uses lstat instead of stat to determine the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file permissions, leading to a change to world-writable permissions for the /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac file, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying this file.
EPSS: 0.004 (28.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 5.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)