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Red Hat sblim Insecure RPATH Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory:	SA30803	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2008-06-24
Popularity:	2,333 views

Critical:	Less critical
Impact:	Privilege escalation
Where:	Local system
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

OS:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4 RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4 RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4

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CVE reference:	CVE-2008-1951

Description: Red Hat has acknowledged a vulnerability in sblim, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. The vulnerability is caused due to an insecure RPATH being configured within the sblim packages for Red Hat, which causes the affected binaries to look for shared libraries within a world-writable directory first. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user running the affected binaries by causing the binaries to load a malicious shared library. Solution: Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network. http://rhn.redhat.com Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by the vendor. Original Advisory: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0497.html

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