CVE-2008-1951 Privilege escalation in n/a
Medium 4.6
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-1951 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2008-1951 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 25 Jun 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1951 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Redhat Enterprise Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1951/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1951/index.md)
Local attackers can gain privileges by placing a malicious library in a specific directory due to an incorrect RPATH setting in sblim libraries.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2008-1951?
CVE-2008-1951 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 25 Jun 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability (sblim) libraries before 1-13a.el4_6.1 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, and before 1-31.el5_2.1 in RHEL 5, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious library in a certain subdirectory of /var/tmp, related to an incorrect RPATH setting, as demonstrated by a malicious libc.so library for tog-pegasus.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1951?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (40)
sblim Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-base Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.5.4-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-base-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.5.4-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-base-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.5.4-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.0.4-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-fsvol Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.4.3-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-fsvol-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.4.3-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-fsvol-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.4.3-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-network Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.3.7-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-network-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.3.7-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-network-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.3.7-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-nfsv3 Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.0.13-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-nfsv3-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.0.13-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-nfsv4 Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.0.11-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-nfsv4-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.0.11-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-params Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.2.4-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-params-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.2.4-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-sysfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.1.8-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-sysfs-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.1.8-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-syslog Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:0.7.9-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-syslog-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:0.7.9-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-gather Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.1.1-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-gather-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.1.1-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-gather-provider Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.1.1-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-gather-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.1.1-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-testsuite Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.2.4-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-wbemcli Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.5.1-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-base Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.5.4-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-base-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.5.4-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-base-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.5.4-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.0.4-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-fsvol Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.4.3-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-fsvol-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.4.3-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-fsvol-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.4.3-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-network Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.3.7-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-network-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.3.7-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-network-test Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.3.7-13a.el4_6.1 |
sblim-cmpi-nfsv3 Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.0.13-13a.el4_6.1 |
Products include Redhat Enterprise Linux.
How do I fix CVE-2008-1951?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2008-1951 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1951 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-ppg2-58hq-f747, RHSA-2008:0497.