Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in OpenSSH - CVE-2008-1483
Published: February 14, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU103988
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1483
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenSSH
Affected software:
OpenSSH
OpenSSH
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions. A local user can 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2008-1483
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-005.txt.asc
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ssh_advisory.asc
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463011
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01462841
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00007.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29522
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29537
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29554
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29626
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29676
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29683
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29686
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29721
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29735
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29873
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29939
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30086
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30230
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30249
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30347
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30361
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31531
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31882
- http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:05.openssh.asc
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=590180&group_id=69227
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-237444-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1019235.1-1
- http://support.attachmate.com/techdocs/2374.html
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-205.htm
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2008-1483
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0120
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1576
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-03.xml
- http://www.globus.org/mail_archive/security-announce/2008/04/msg00000.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:078
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490054/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28444
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019707
- http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.540188
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0994/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1123/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1124/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1448/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1526/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1624/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1630/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2396
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41438
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2397
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6085
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/597-1/