CVE-2002-0083: Conectiva Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 14.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the channel code of OpenSSH 2.0 through 3.0.2 allows local users or remote malicious servers to gain privileges.

Affected products

• Conectiva Linux: version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version ecommerce only; version graficas only
• Engardelinux Secure Linux: version 1.0.1 only
• Immunix Immunix: version 7.0 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only; version 8.0 only; version 8.1 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server: version 1.0.1 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Single Network Firewall: version 7.2 only
• OpenBSD OpenSSH: from 2.0, before 3.1 (fixed in 3.1)
• Openpkg Openpkg: version 1.0 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 6.4 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only
• Trustix Secure Linux: version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.5 only

Published 2002-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.