CVE - CVE-2013-2207

CVE-ID
CVE-2013-2207	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MLIST:[libc-alpha] 20130812 The GNU C Library version 2.18 is now available URL:https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00160.html CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976408 CONFIRM:https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15755 GENTOO:GLSA-201503-04 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2013:283 URL:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283 SUSE:SUSE-SU-2015:1424 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00019.html SUSE:SUSE-SU-2016:0470 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html UBUNTU:USN-2985-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 UBUNTU:USN-2985-2 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 SECUNIA:55113 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/55113
Assigning CNA
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Date Entry Created
20130219	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20130219)
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