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.
Published: 2008-06-25
Score: 4.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-1949 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.
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:41:00.243Z

Reserved: 2008-04-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-1951

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-06-25T12:36:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-1951

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Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2008-06-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-1951 - Bugzilla

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