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.

References

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

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2