Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for the ibmssh executable in ibutils packages before ibutils-1.5.7-2.el6 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and ibutils-1.2-11.2.el5 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan Horse program in refix/lib/, related to an incorrect RPATH setting in the ELF header.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for the ibmssh executable in ibutils     packages before ibutils-1.5.7-2.el6 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and ibutils-1.2-11.2.el5 in Red     Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan Horse program in     refix/lib/, related to an incorrect RPATH setting in the ELF header. (CVE-2008-3277)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0311 advisory.

    - Add patch for CVE-2008-3277       Resolves: bz768400

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The ibutils packages provide InfiniBand network and path diagnostics.

It was found that the ibmssh executable had an insecure relative RPATH (runtime library search path) set in the ELF (Executable and Linking Format) header. A local user able to convince another user to run ibmssh in an attacker-controlled directory could run arbitrary code with the privileges of the victim. (CVE-2008-3277)

This update also fixes the following bug :

  - Under certain circumstances, the 'ibdiagnet -r' command     could suffer from memory corruption and terminate with a     'double free or corruption' message and a backtrace.
    With this update, the correct memory management function     is used to prevent the corruption.

All users of ibutils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0311 advisory.

  - ibutils: insecure relative RPATH (CVE-2008-3277)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
217071	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2008-3277	Nessus	Misc.	critical
68482	Oracle Linux 5 : ibutils (ELSA-2012-0311)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
61262	Scientific Linux Security Update : ibutils on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
58065	RHEL 5 : ibutils (RHSA-2012:0311)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

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