CVE-2008-1951
First published: Wed May 21 2008(Updated: )
It was discovered that libraries shipped in sblim packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 have RPATH set pointing to a directory in a world-writable temporary directory: /var/tmp/sblim-<version>-<release>-root-brewbuilder//usr/lib . That directory existed on the build system during the package build, but is unlikely to exist on systems where sblim packages are installed. This issue can be exploited by a local user to create fake library required by sblim libraries and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application using sblim such as tog-pegasus.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =4 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =5 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447705
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0497.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30803
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020354
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29913
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43315
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9635
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0497.html
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