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Gentoo: GLSA-200711-03 Moderate Risk: OpenSSH Local Elevation Vulnerability

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A vulnerability in OpenSSH permits local users to circumvent security measures in Gentoo. Immediate update advised.
A flaw has been discovered in OpenSSH which could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200711-02
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Low
     Title: OpenSSH: Security bypass
      Date: November 01, 2007
      Bugs: #191321
        ID: 200711-02


Synopsis
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A flaw has been discovered in OpenSSH which could allow a local
attacker to bypass security restrictions.

Background
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OpenSSH is a complete SSH protocol implementation that includes an SFTP
client and server support.

Affected packages
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     Package           /  Vulnerable  /                     Unaffected
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  1  net-misc/openssh        < 4.7                              >= 4.7

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Jan Pechanec discovered that OpenSSH uses a trusted X11 cookie when it
cannot create an untrusted one.

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