CVE-2008-0884

MediumCVSS 6.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The Replace function in the capp-lspp-config script in the (1) lspp-eal4-config-ibm and (2) capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages before 0.65-2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 uses lstat instead of stat to determine the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file permissions, leading to a change to world-writable permissions for the /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac file, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying this file.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.9/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-732

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0193.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29642Broken Link
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019740Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28557Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435442Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41584Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0193.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29642Broken Link
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019740Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28557Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435442Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41584Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Timeline

Published: Apr 4, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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