CVE-2008-3278

CVSS V2 Medium 4.6 CVSS V3 High 7.8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2008-3278
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-11-07T23:15:10
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-11-13T19:00:23
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-1188 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1188.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:frysk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2008-08-05
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.6
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
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
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3278
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3278
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:59:27 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 05:44:12 2019-11-07T23:15Z 2019-11-07T23:15:10 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 05:44:12 2019-11-13T19:00:23 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 05:44:12 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated