CVE-2008-2366

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for OpenOffice.org (OOo) 1.1.x on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 and 4 allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious library in the current working directory, related to incorrect quoting of the ORIGIN symbol for use in the RPATH library path.

Affected products

Openoffice: 1.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30633
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020278
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0538.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29695
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450532
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43322
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11361
http://secunia.com/advisories/30633
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020278
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0538.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29695
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450532

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