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.

🔗 References (108)

• cve@mitreftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-005.txt.asc
• cve@mitrehttp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ssh_advisory.asc
• cve@mitrehttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463011
• cve@mitrehttp://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01462841
• cve@mitrehttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
• cve@mitrehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00007.html
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29522
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29537
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29554
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29626
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29676
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29683
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29686
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29721
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29735