CVE-2007-2797

xterm, including 192-7.el4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 208-3.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, sets the wrong group ownership of tty devices, which allows local users to write data to other users' terminals.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2007-08-27

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Xterm (Xterm)

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=349924
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26562
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27617
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27921
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3066
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-490.htm
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0701.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477469/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477632/100/100/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26710
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239070
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1396
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10421