CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-3844

9.3 HIGH Published 2008-08-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-08-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

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.

Affected configurations

• openbsd openssh

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References