VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-3278

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.35%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-11-07
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-1188: Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

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