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>> OpenSSH Forwarded X Connection Information Disclosure Vulnerability
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Title : OpenSSH Forwarded X Connection Information Disclosure Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0994
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1483
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-03-26
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A weakness has been identified in OpenSSH, which could be exploited by local attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This issue is caused by an error when binding and using TCP ports on the IPv6/IPv4 interfaces while another process is listening on the associated port, which could be exploited by malicious users to hijack forwarded X connections.
Affected Products
OpenSSH versions 4.x
Solution
Upgrade to OpenSSH version 5.0 or 5.0p1 :
http://www.openssh.org/
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0994
http://www.openssh.org/txt/release-5.0
http://bugs.debian.org/463011
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Timo Juhani Lindfors.
ChangeLog
2008-03-25 : Initial release
2008-04-04 : Updated Solution
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