CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3278
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1188
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.
Affected configurations
• redhat frysk (<= 2008-08-05)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-3278 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3278 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3278 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-3278 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3278 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3278 Third Party Advisory