CVE-2009-2904 (GCVE-0-2009-2904)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-10-01 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:07
VLAI
Summary
A certain Red Hat modification to the ChrootDirectory feature in OpenSSH 4.8, as used in sshd in OpenSSH 4.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 and Fedora 11, allows local users to gain privileges via hard links to setuid programs that use configuration files within the chroot directory, related to requirements for directory ownership.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1082 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announ… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36552 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1470.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://osvdb.org/58495 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/39182 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522141 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Date Public
2009-09-30 00:00
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