CVE-2008-4865

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-4865
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-11-01 00:00:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionUntrusted 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Valgrind Valgrind 1.9.6 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 2.0.0 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 2.1.0 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 2.1.1 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 2.2.0 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 2.4.1 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 2.4.1 All powerpc All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.0.0 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.0.1 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.1.0 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.1.1 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.2.0 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.2.1 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.2.2 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.2.3 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.3.0 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.3.0 rc1 All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.3.0 rc2 All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.3.0 rc3 All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.3.1 All All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind 3.3.1 rc1 All All
Application Valgrind Valgrind All rc1 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: CVE request: lynx (old) .mailcap handling flaw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
oss-security - Re: CVE request: lynx (old) .mailcap handling flaw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
oss-security - Re: CVE request: lynx (old) .mailcap handling flaw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Valgrind: Untrusted search path af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
oss-security - Re: CVE request: lynx (old) .mailcap handling flaw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:002 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Valgrind, an open-source memory debugger / Thread: [Valgrind-announce] Valgrind-3.4.0 is available af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-02-05Tomas HogerRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-4865 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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