Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-3278 - Insecure Default Initialization of Resource vulnerability in Redhat Frysk 20080805

047910
CVSS 4.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
low complexity
redhat
CWE-1188

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Redhat
2
OS
Redhat
1