CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1692
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-04-07
- 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
Eterm 0.9.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if -display is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine.
Affected configurations
• eterm eterm 0.9.4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473127 bugs.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29577 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:222 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28512 www.securityfocus.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473127 bugs.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29577 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:222 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28512 www.securityfocus.com