OpenSSH privilege escalation
Published:		25.03.2008
Source:		BUGTRAQ
SecurityVulns ID:		8834
Type:		local
Level:		6/10
Description:		Local user can hijack X-session of different user because of invalid DISPLAY variable initialization.

Affected:		OPENSSH : OpenSSH 4.3
CVE:		CVE-2008-1483 (OpenSSH 4.3p2, and probably other versions, allows local users to 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.)

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RPATH, rPSA-2008-0120-1 gnome-ssh-askpass openssh openssh-client openssh-server (25.03.2008)

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