Vulnerability CVE-2008-1951
Published: 2008-06-25   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Desktop workstation 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux desktop 

 References:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9635
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29913
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020354
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43315
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447705
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0497.html
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