{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2010-11-17T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "Systemtap: Insecure loading of modules",
    "id" : "653604",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653604"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "7.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-284",
  "details" : [ "The staprun runtime tool in SystemTap 1.3 does not properly clear the environment before executing modprobe, which allows local users to gain privileges by setting the MODPROBE_OPTIONS environment variable to specify a malicious configuration file." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2010-11-17T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0895",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "systemtap-0:0.6.2-2.el4_8.3",
    "impact" : "moderate"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2010-11-17T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0894",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "systemtap-0:1.1-3.el5_5.3",
    "impact" : "important"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2010-11-17T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0894",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "systemtap-0:1.2-11.el6_0",
    "impact" : "important"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4170\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4170" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2010-4170",
  "csaw" : false
}