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HIGH

security flaw

Published Jan 22, 2001

Description

OpenSSH SSH client before 2.3.0 does not properly disable X11 or agent forwarding, which could allow a malicious SSH server to gain access to the X11 display and sniff X11 events, or gain access to the ssh-agent.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

This issue was fixed in the following product: - Red Hat Linux 7.0 - RHSA-2000:111 (2000-11-27)

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (15)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 22, 2001
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Dec 14, 2000
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date Nov 13, 2000