CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1555

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

pt_chmod in Solaris 8 does not call fdetach to reset terminal privileges when users log out of terminals, which allows local users to write to other users' terminals by modifying the ACL of a TTY.

Affected configurations

• sun solaris 8.0 • sun sunos 5.8

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References