CVE-2009-2904 (GCVE-0-2009-2904)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-10-01 15:00
Modified
2024-08-07 06:07
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36552 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1470.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038214.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://osvdb.org/58495 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/39182 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9862 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522141 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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