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CVE-2008-3844

Date: August 27, 2008

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (11)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32241
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-399.htm
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30794
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2821
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/data/openssh-blacklist.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020730
http://secunia.com/advisories/31575
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44747
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3844
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-3844

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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