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>> Globus Toolkit and GSI-OpenSSH Information Disclosure Issue

Title : Globus Toolkit and GSI-OpenSSH Information Disclosure Issue
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1123
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1483
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-07

Technical Description

A weakness has been identified in Globus Toolkit and GSI-OpenSSH, which could be exploited by local attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This issue is caused by an error in OpenSSH. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0994

Affected Products

Globus Toolkit version 4.0.0-4.0.7
Globus Toolkit version 4.1.0-4.1.3
GSI-OpenSSH version 4.2 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to GSI-OpenSSH version 4.3 :
http://grid.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ssh/download.html

Or apply patch :
ftp://ftp.globus.org/pub/gsissh/patch/openssh-5.0p1.patch

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1123
http://www.globus.org/mail_archive/security-announce/2008/04/msg00000.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by the vendor.

ChangeLog

2008-04-07 : Initial release

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