xterm, including 192-7.el4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 208-3.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, sets the wrong group ownership of tty devices, which allows local users to write data to other users' terminals.

An updated xterm package that corrects a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cannot use the window system directly.

A bug was found in the way xterm packages were built that caused the pseudo-terminal device files of the xterm emulated terminals to be owned by the incorrect group. This flaw did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 and earlier. (CVE-2007-2797)

All users of xterm are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a patch to correct this issue.

A bug was found in the way xterm packages were built that caused the pseudo-terminal device files of the xterm emulated terminals to be owned by the incorrect group. This flaw did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 and earlier. (CVE-2007-2797)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
67052	CentOS 4 : xterm (CESA-2007:0701)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	low
60313	Scientific Linux Security Update : xterm on SL4.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	low
28236	RHEL 4 : xterm (RHSA-2007:0701)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	low

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CVE-2007-2797

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