CVE-2008-1483
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.9 · CWE-264
6.9CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
OpenSSH 4.3p2, and probably other versions, allows local users to hijack forwarded X connections by causing ssh to set DISPLAY to :10, even when another process is listening on the associated port, as demonstrated by opening TCP port 6010 (IPv4) and sniffing a cookie sent by Emacs.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29522Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29537Advisory
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-005.txt.asc
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ssh_advisory.asc
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463011
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01462841
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00007.html