CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-0217
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-01-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The script program in FreeBSD 5.0 through 7.0-PRERELEASE invokes openpty, which creates a pseudo-terminal with world-readable and world-writable permissions when it is not run as root, which allows local users to read data from the terminal of the user running script.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 5.0
• freebsd freebsd 5.5
• freebsd freebsd 6.0
• freebsd freebsd 6.1
• freebsd freebsd 6.2
• 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/39665 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/39665 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com