CVE-2008-3278: Red Hat Frysk

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

frysk packages through 2008-08-05 as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are built with an insecure RPATH set in the ELF header of multiple binaries in /usr/bin/f* (e.g. fcore, fcatch, fstack, fstep, ...) shipped in the package. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by running arbitrary code as another user.

Affected products

• Red Hat Frysk: up to and including 2008-08-05

Published 2019-11-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.