CVE-2009-2904 | BDVDB-2026-38776 Detail
Description#
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#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38794
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36552
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1470.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038214.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38834
- http://osvdb.org/58495
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39182
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9862
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522141
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.