CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-0216
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-01-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The ptsname function in FreeBSD 6.0 through 7.0-PRERELEASE does not properly verify that a certain portion of a device name is associated with a pty of a user who is calling the pt_chown function, which might allow local users to read data from the pty from another user.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 6.0
• freebsd freebsd 6.1
• freebsd freebsd 6.2
• freebsd freebsd 6.3
• freebsd freebsd 7.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28498 secunia.com
- http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:01.pty.asc Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27284 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019191 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39667 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28498 secunia.com
- http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:01.pty.asc Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27284 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019191 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39667 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com