CVE-2008-0884

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-732

Description

The Replace function in the capp-lspp-config script in the (1) lspp-eal4-config-ibm and (2) capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages before 0.65-2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 uses lstat instead of stat to determine the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file permissions, leading to a change to world-writable permissions for the /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac file, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying this file.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0193.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29642
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019740
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28557
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435442
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41584
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0193.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29642
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019740
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28557
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435442
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41584

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