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Re: setsid() function call vulnerability (VU#740619) on OpenVMS

Subject: Re: setsid() function call vulnerability (VU#740619) on OpenVMS
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:17:49 -0400
On Apr 8, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Yanyan Wang wrote:

We keep getting SSH Secure Shell Unix server setsid() function call  
vulnerability (VU#740619) on some of our OpenVMS systems, but the  
description of this vulnerability points to UNIX systems only. Is  
this a false positive? Thanks.

It might be best to contact the vendor for a definitive answer.  While  
SSH.com's advisory says it affects "all POSIX Unixes (AIX, Linux, HP- 
UX, Solaris, any BSD)", I'm not familiar enough with either the  
product itself or OpenVMS to know if using the OS along with, say, its  
UNIX (POSIX) interfaces makes it vulnerable.

Note that there was an issue reported with the OpenVMS SSH late last  
month -- CVE-2008-0214 -- that we do not check for.


George
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