PT-2019-6496 · Red Hat · Frysk

Published 2019-11-07 · Updated 2019-11-13 · CVE-2008-3278

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions frysk packages through 2008-08-05 as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Description The issue arises from an insecure RPATH set in the ELF header of multiple binaries in /usr/bin/f*, such as fcore, fcatch, fstack, and fstep, shipped in the frysk package. A local attacker can exploit this by running arbitrary code as another user.

Recommendations For frysk packages through 2008-08-05 as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, consider rebuilding the packages with a secure RPATH set in the ELF header to prevent exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1188

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3278

Affected Products

Frysk

References · 6

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-3278 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3278 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3278 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3278 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/7995 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/8098 · Telegram Post