CVE-2008-3278

high

Description

frysk packages through 2008-08-05 as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are built with an insecure RPATH set in the ELF header of multiple binaries in /usr/bin/f* (e.g. fcore, fcatch, fstack, fstep, ...) shipped in the package. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by running arbitrary code as another user.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3278

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3278

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-3278

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-07

Updated: 2019-11-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00049