Missing Host Key Verification in kdump and mkdumprd OpenSSH Integration

CVE-2011-4190 · LOW Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

The kdump implementation is missing the host key verification in the kdump and mkdumprd OpenSSH integration of kdump prior to version 2012-01-20. This is similar to CVE-2011-3588, but different in that the kdump implementation is specific to SUSE. A remote malicious kdump server could use this flaw to impersonate the correct kdump server to obtain security sensitive information (kdump core files).

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