Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4865

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-10-31 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:31:27
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.