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CVE-2008-3844

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
27/08/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.5.z:*:as:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.5.z:*:es:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:5:*:client:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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