CVE-2007-4752 Information

Description

ssh in OpenSSH before 4.7 does not properly handle when an untrusted cookie cannot be created and uses a trusted X11 cookie instead which allows attackers to violate intended policy and gain privileges by causing an X client to be treated as trusted.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191321 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01271085 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27399 http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 http://secunia.com/advisories/30249 http://secunia.com/advisories/31575 http://secunia.com/advisories/32241 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-02.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3126 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-399.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1576 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:236 http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-4.7 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479760/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483748/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25628 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-566-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3156 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2821 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280471 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36637 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1706 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10809 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A5599 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00214.html