CVE-2012-3381

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: 2012-08-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

sfcb in sblim-sfcb places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

Affected products

Standards Based Linux Instrumentation Sblim-Sfcb: all versions

References

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3541554&group_id=128809&atid=712784
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/06/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/06/8
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770234
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838160
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3541554&group_id=128809&atid=712784
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/06/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/06/8
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770234
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838160

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