CVE-2008-3278 Information

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/factor /usr/bin/fail2ban-client /usr/bin/fail2ban-python /usr/bin/fail2ban-regex /usr/bin/fail2ban-server /usr/bin/fail2ban-testcases /usr/bin/faillog /usr/bin/faked-sysv /usr/bin/faked-tcp /usr/bin/fakeroot /usr/bin/fakeroot-sysv /usr/bin/fakeroot-tcp /usr/bin/fallocate /usr/bin/false /usr/bin/fcgistarter /usr/bin/fgconsole /usr/bin/fgrep /usr/bin/file /usr/bin/finalrd /usr/bin/fincore /usr/bin/find /usr/bin/findmnt /usr/bin/flock /usr/bin/fmt /usr/bin/fold /usr/bin/free /usr/bin/from /usr/bin/ftp /usr/bin/fuser /usr/bin/fusermount /usr/bin/fwupdagent /usr/bin/fwupdate /usr/bin/fwupdmgr /usr/bin/fwupdtool /usr/bin/fwupdtpmevlog (e.g. fcore fcatch fstack fstep …) shipped in the package. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by running arbitrary code as another user.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-3278 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3278 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3278

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8