Security Advisory

CVE-2008-1483

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-03-24 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 08:24:42
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

OpenSSH 4.3p2, and probably other versions, allows local users to hijack forwarded X connections by causing ssh to set DISPLAY to :10, even when another process is listening on the associated port, as demonstrated by opening TCP port 6010 (IPv4) and sniffing a cookie sent by Emacs.