National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2904

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:1470

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1470.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522141

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522141

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-0528

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528

External Source: BID

Name: 36552

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36552

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 39182

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/39182

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 38834

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/38834

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 38794

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/38794

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9862

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9862

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 58495

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/58495

External Source: MLIST

Name: [security-announce] 20100303 VMSA-2010-0004 ESX Service Console and vMA third party updates

Hyperlink:http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2010-5429

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038214.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9862

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9862