Security Advisory

CVE-2008-3259

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-07-22 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 09:28:41
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

OpenSSH before 5.1 sets the SO_REUSEADDR socket option when the X11UseLocalhost configuration setting is disabled, which allows local users on some platforms to hijack the X11 forwarding port via a bind to a single IP address, as demonstrated on the HP-UX platform.