CVE-2009-2904

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.9
Exploit probability25. percentile0.3%
ProductOpenbsd Openssh
PublishedOct 1, 2009
First seenOct 1, 2009

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
openbsd openssh4.3, 4.8—

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