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Ubuntu 6.06 - 7.10 USN-597-1 Vulnerability: OpenSSH Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2008
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
OpenSSH flaw poses risk to Ubuntu platforms; patch to resolve. Level: severe concern.
Timo Juhani Lindfors discovered that the OpenSSH client, when port forwarding was requested, would listen on any available address family. A local attacker could exploit this fla...

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security advisory critical issue security update local exploit openssh ubuntu x11 hijack

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-597-1 April 01, 2008

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue security update local exploit openssh ubuntu x11 hijack

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