Gentoo: GLSA-200711-03 Moderate Risk: OpenSSH Local Elevation Vulnerability
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November 2, 2007
A flaw has been discovered in OpenSSH which could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions.
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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.
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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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