A weakness has been identified in OpenSSH, which could be exploited by local attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This issue is caused by an error when binding and using TCP ports on the IPv6/IPv4 interfaces while another process is listening on the associated port, which could be exploited by malicious users to hijack forwarded X connections.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Timo Juhani Lindfors.
ChangeLog
2008-03-25 : Initial release
2008-04-04 : Updated Solution
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