CVE-2008-3844

Description

Certain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 and 5 packages for OpenSSH, as signed in August 2008 using a legitimate Red Hat GPG key, contain an externally introduced modification (Trojan Horse) that allows the package authors to have an unknown impact. NOTE: since the malicious packages were not distributed from any official Red Hat sources, the scope of this issue is restricted to users who may have obtained these packages through unofficial distribution points. As of 20080827, no unofficial distributions of this software are known.

Weakness classification

• CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Not Applicable
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
• cve@mitre.org
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry