CVE-2009-2904 (GCVE-0-2009-2904)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-10-01 15:00
Modified
2024-08-07 06:07
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
A certain Red Hat modification to the ChrootDirectory feature in OpenSSH 4.8, as used in sshd in OpenSSH 4.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 and Fedora 11, allows local users to gain privileges via hard links to setuid programs that use configuration files within the chroot directory, related to requirements for directory ownership.
References
secalert@redhat.com http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038214.html
secalert@redhat.com http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html
secalert@redhat.com http://osvdb.org/58495
secalert@redhat.com http://secunia.com/advisories/38794
secalert@redhat.com http://secunia.com/advisories/38834
secalert@redhat.com http://secunia.com/advisories/39182
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36552
secalert@redhat.com http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522141
secalert@redhat.com https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9862
secalert@redhat.com https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1470.html Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038214.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://osvdb.org/58495
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/38794
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/38834
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/39182
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36552
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522141
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9862
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1470.html Vendor Advisory
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