CVE-2008-3844 Information

Description

Certain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 and 5 packages for OpenSSH as signed in August 2008 using a legitimate Red Hat GPG key contain an externally introduced modification (Trojan Horse) that allows the package authors to have an unknown impact. NOTE: since the malicious packages were not distributed from any official Red Hat sources the scope of this issue is restricted to users who may have obtained these packages through unofficial distribution points. As of 20080827 no unofficial distributions of this software are known.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/31575 http://secunia.com/advisories/32241 http://securitytracker.com/id?1020730 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-399.htm http://www.redhat.com/security/data/openssh-blacklist.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30794 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2821 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44747