CVE-2008-2366 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2008-2366?

CVE-2008-2366 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 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 OpenOffice.org (OOo) 1.1.x on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 and 4 allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious library in the current working directory, related to incorrect quoting of the ORIGIN symbol for use in the RPATH library path.

Weakness: CWE-16

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-2366?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Openoffice Openoffice.

How do I fix CVE-2008-2366?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2008-2366 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2366 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2007-4575 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2007-0245 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2007-0238 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2007-0239 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2006-5870 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-vcfc-hhf9-89j5.