redhat · CVE-2016-1908

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Priority: medium 公開: 2016-01-14 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2016-01-14 00:00:00 UTC

参照: Official redhat advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE 詳細

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

The client in OpenSSH before 7.2 mishandles failed cookie generation for untrusted X11 forwarding and relies on the local X11 server for access-control decisions, which allows remote X11 clients to trigger a fallback and obtain trusted X11 forwarding privileges by leveraging configuration issues on this X11 server, as demonstrated by lack of the SECURITY extension on this X11 server.

Description:

The client in OpenSSH before 7.2 mishandles failed cookie generation for untrusted X11 forwarding and relies on the local X11 server for access-control decisions, which allows remote X11 clients to trigger a fallback and obtain trusted X11 forwarding privileges by leveraging configuration issues on this X11 server, as demonstrated by lack of the SECURITY extension on this X11 server.

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