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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2008-1951 json

Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability (sblim) l…

published 2008-06-25 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1949

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 31%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • sblim RHEL 4 1-13a.el4_6.1
  • sblim RHEL 5 1-31.el5_2.1
  • sblim-gather RHEL 4 2.1.1-13a.el4_6.1
  • sblim-gather RHEL 5 2.1.2-31.el5_2.1
  • sblim-wbemcli RHEL 4 1.5.1-13a.el4_6.1
  • sblim-wbemcli RHEL 5 1.5.1-31.el5_2.1
  • sblim-cmpi-dns RHEL 5 0.5.2-31.el5_2.1
  • sblim-cmpi-base RHEL 4 1.5.4-13a.el4_6.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0497

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-1951 updated cvss 7.2

sblim: libraries built with insecure RPATH

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) sblim 1-31.el5_2.1, sblim-gather 2.1.2-31.el5_2.1, sblim-wbemcli 1.5.1-31.el5_2.1, sblim-cmpi-dns 0.5.2-31.el5_2.1, sblim-cmpi-base 1.5.5-31.el5_2.1, sblim-cmpi-dns-test 1-31.el5_2.1, +24 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 sblim 1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-gather 2.1.1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-wbemcli 1.5.1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-cmpi-base 1.5.4-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-testsuite 1.2.4-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-cmpi-fsvol 1.4.3-13a.el4_6.1, +16 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) sblim 1-31.el5_2.1, sblim-gather 2.1.2-31.el5_2.1, sblim-wbemcli 1.5.1-31.el5_2.1, sblim-cmpi-dns 0.5.2-31.el5_2.1, sblim-cmpi-base 1.5.5-31.el5_2.1, sblim-cmpi-dns-test 1-31.el5_2.1, +24 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 sblim 1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-gather 2.1.1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-wbemcli 1.5.1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-cmpi-base 1.5.4-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-testsuite 1.2.4-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-cmpi-fsvol 1.4.3-13a.el4_6.1, +16 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) sblim 1-31.el5_2.1, sblim-gather 2.1.2-31.el5_2.1, sblim-wbemcli 1.5.1-31.el5_2.1, sblim-cmpi-dns 0.5.2-31.el5_2.1, sblim-cmpi-base 1.5.5-31.el5_2.1, sblim-cmpi-dns-test 1-31.el5_2.1, +24 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 sblim 1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-gather 2.1.1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-wbemcli 1.5.1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-cmpi-base 1.5.4-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-testsuite 1.2.4-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-cmpi-fsvol 1.4.3-13a.el4_6.1, +16 more
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 sblim 1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-gather 2.1.1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-wbemcli 1.5.1-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-cmpi-base 1.5.4-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-testsuite 1.2.4-13a.el4_6.1, sblim-cmpi-fsvol 1.4.3-13a.el4_6.1, +16 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0497

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Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.