CVE-2013-2207

Published Oct 9, 2013

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description
pt_chown in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.18 does not properly check permissions for tty files, which allows local users to change the permission on the files and obtain access to arbitrary pseudo-terminals by leveraging a FUSE file system.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
2.6
Impact score
4.9
Exploitability score
1.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-264

Configurations