High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 7, 2019· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2008-3278
CVE-2008-3278
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.
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Affected products
4- Range: <=2008-08-05
Patches
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References
3- access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-3278nvdVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3278nvdThird Party Advisory
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