CVE-2013-6409

medium
Published 2013-12-07 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.2

Description

Debian adequate before 0.8.1, when run by root with the --user option, allows local users to hijack the tty and possibly gain privileges via the TIOCSTI ioctl.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbullseyefixed0.8.1
debian debianforkyfixed0.8.1
debian debianbookwormfixed0.8.1
debian debiansidfixed0.8.1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.8.1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
debian debianadequate{"endIncluding":"0.8"}
debian debianadequate0.1
debian debianadequate0.1.1
debian debianadequate0.2
debian debianadequate0.2.1
debian debianadequate0.3.1
debian debianadequate0.4
debian debianadequate0.4.1
debian debianadequate0.4.2
debian debianadequate0.4.3
debian debianadequate0.4.4
debian debianadequate0.5
debian debianadequate0.5.1
debian debianadequate0.5.2
debian debianadequate0.5.3
debian debianadequate0.6
debian debianadequate0.7
debian debianadequate0.7.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.