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TITLE:
Red Hat sblim Insecure RPATH Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30803

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30803/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/13651/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/13653/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
http://secunia.com/product/13652/
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4669/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
http://secunia.com/product/4668/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4670/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has acknowledged a vulnerability in sblim, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an insecure RPATH being configured
within the sblim packages for Red Hat, which causes the affected
binaries to look for shared libraries within a world-writable
directory first. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with
privileges of the user running the affected binaries by causing the
binaries to load a malicious shared library.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0497.html

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