CVE-2008-3279

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-3279 · Published 05/04/2010 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-3279 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting brltty (mielke).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.53%, higher than 45.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
brltty mielke	`= 3.7.2`	No fix yet

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in libbrlttybba.so in brltty 3.7.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted library, related to an incorrect RPATH setting.

References

secunia.com/advisories/39231 · Vendor Advisory
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0181.html
vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0755 · Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11399

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