CVE-2008-3278

HIGH

frysk < 2008-08-05 - Local Privilege Escalation via Insecure RPATH in ELF Binaries

Title source: llm

Description

frysk packages through 2008-08-05 as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are built with an insecure RPATH set in the ELF header of multiple binaries in /usr/bin/f* (e.g. fcore, fcatch, fstack, fstep, ...) shipped in the package. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by running arbitrary code as another user.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3278

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3278

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-3278

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0035

EPSS Percentile 26.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-1188

Status published

Products (1)

redhat/frysk < 2008-08-05

Published Nov 07, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026