47635 : OpenSSH Packages on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compromised Distribution
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2008-08-22

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-3844" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Certain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 and 5 packages for OpenSSH, as signed in August 2008 using a legitimate Red Hat GPG key, contain an externally introduced modification (Trojan Horse) that allows the package authors to have an unknown impact. NOTE: since the malicious packages were not distributed from any official Red Hat sources, the scope of this issue is restricted to users who may have obtained these packages through unofficial distribution points. As of 20080827, no unofficial distributions of this software are known.

Classification

Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1020730
CVE ID: 2008-3844 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 30794
Secunia Advisory ID: 31575 32241
Other Advisory URL: http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1130
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-399.htm
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://www.redhat.com/security/data/openssh-blacklist.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00012.html
News Article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/red_hat_systems_hacked/
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2008:0855

Tools & Filters

	34030

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-08-28 | Disagree?

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