CVE-2008-2359

The default configuration of consolehelper in system-config-network before 1.5.10-1 on Fedora 8 lacks the USER=root directive, which allows local users of the workstation console to gain privileges and change the network configuration.

Date published : 2008-06-02

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448557

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00974.html