CVE-2008-1951

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2008-06-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability (sblim) libraries before 1-13a.el4_6.1 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, and before 1-31.el5_2.1 in RHEL 5, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious library in a certain subdirectory of /var/tmp, related to an incorrect RPATH setting, as demonstrated by a malicious libc.so library for tog-pegasus.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4, 5

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30803
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29913
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020354
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447705
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43315
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9635
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0497.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30803
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29913
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020354
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447705
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43315

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