CVE-2008-3844

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.3
Exploit probability—
ProductOpenbsd Openssh
PublishedAug 27, 2008
First seenAug 27, 2008

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
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