Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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.
EPSS: 0.004 (30.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 4, 5
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (Permissions Required, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Not Applicable)
- 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_CONFIRM, Issue Tracking)