Security Advisory

CVE-2009-2904

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-10-01 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 06:07:37
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A certain Red Hat modification to the ChrootDirectory feature in OpenSSH 4.8, as used in sshd in OpenSSH 4.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 and Fedora 11, allows local users to gain privileges via hard links to setuid programs that use configuration files within the chroot directory, related to requirements for directory ownership.