CVE-2008-3844

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44747

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30794

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html

http://www.redhat.com/security/data/openssh-blacklist.html

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-399.htm

http://securitytracker.com/id?1020730

http://secunia.com/advisories/32241

http://secunia.com/advisories/31575

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3