CVE-2008-1483

CVE-2008-1483 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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