CVE-2008-1483

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.

Affected products

Alt Linux, Hp-Ux, Openssh, Red Hat, Suse

Openbsd Openssh

= 4.3p2

Fix

Available

CVSS 2.0

6.9 MEDIUM

EPSS

0.3% (27th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-264

NVD status

Modified

Published

2008-03-24