CVE-2009-0141

XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of another user.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2009-02-13

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-732

Affected products

• Mac Os X (Apple)
• Mac Os X Server (Apple)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
• http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48727