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CVE-2008-4865

Date: October 31, 2008

Untrusted search path vulnerability in valgrind before 3.4.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs via a Trojan horse .valgrindrc file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using a malicious --db-command options. NOTE: the severity of this issue has been disputed, but CVE is including this issue because execution of a program from an untrusted directory is a common scenario.

Severity Score

Related Resources (11)

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200901032045.17604.jseward%40acm.org&forum_name=valgrind-announce
http://secunia.com/advisories/33568
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/9
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00004.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4865
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/5
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4865
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/28/5
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200902-03.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/27/4
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-4865

Severity Score

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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