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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-08-27T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:53:00.389Z

Reserved: 2008-08-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-3844

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-08-27T20:41:00.000

Modified: 2017-08-08T01:32:12.797

Link: CVE-2008-3844

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2008-08-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-3844 - Bugzilla