CVE-2008-3234: OpenBSD OpenSSH

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 5.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sshd in OpenSSH 4 on Debian GNU/Linux, and the 20070303 OpenSSH snapshot, allows remote authenticated users to obtain access to arbitrary SELinux roles by appending a :/ (colon slash) sequence, followed by the role name, to the username.

Affected products

• OpenBSD OpenSSH: version 4.0 only

Published 2008-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.