National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0225
Original release date:01/25/2006
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
scp in OpenSSH 4.2p1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via filenames that contain shell metacharacters or spaces, which are expanded twice.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Official Statement from Red Hat (09/09/2009)
This issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3 and 4:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/CVE-2006-0225.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2006-0225.html
Issue was fixed upstream in version 4.3. The openssh packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are based on the fixed upstream version and were not affected by this flaw.
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-072A
Name: TA07-072A
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18595
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174026
External Source: XF
Name: openssh-scp-command-execution(24305)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-2120
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0930
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4869
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-2490
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-0306
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-255-1
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2006-0004
External Source: BID
Name: 16369
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FLSA-2006:168935
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0044
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 22692
External Source: OPENPKG
Name: OpenPKG-SA-2006.003
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:008
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200602-11
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2006-045-06
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1015540
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19159
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18970
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18969
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18964
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18910
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18850
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18798
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18736
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18650
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18579
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9962
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02178
External Source: OPENBSD
Name: 20060212 [3.8] 005: SECURITY FIX: February 12, 2006
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=2751
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/hmc/power5/install/v52.Readme.html#MH00688
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0698
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0298
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:034
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-246.htm
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-262.htm
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-174.htm
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-158.htm
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 102961
External Source: SREASON
Name: 462
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25936
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25607
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24479
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23680
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23340
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23241
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22196
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21724
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21492
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21262
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21129
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20723
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2007-03-13
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02178
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/sun_alert_102961_security_vulnerability
External Source: SGI
Name: 20060703-01-P
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1138
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1138
Type: Tool Signature
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9962
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1138
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5