CVE-2013-2207

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.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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References

• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2207.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00019.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55113
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976408
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15755
• https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00160.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2207

CWEs

CWE-264

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