CVE-2008-3277

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2014-04-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for the ibmssh executable in ibutils packages before ibutils-1.5.7-2.el6 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and ibutils-1.2-11.2.el5 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan Horse program in refix/lib/, related to an incorrect RPATH setting in the ELF header.

Affected products

Openfabrics Ibutils: 1.5.7-2, 1.2-11.2

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0311.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457935
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0311.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457935

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