CVE-2008-3844
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 27, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 27, 2008
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-399.htm
- http://www.redhat.com/security/data/openssh-blacklist.html
- ADV-2008-2821vdb-entry
- 31575third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2008:0855vendor-advisory
- openssh-rhel-backdoor(44747)vdb-entry
- 1020730vdb-entry
- 30794vdb-entry
- 32241third-party-advisory
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