CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4613
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-02-05
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The X.Org X wrapper (xserver-wrapper.c) in Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux does not properly verify the TTY of a user who is starting X, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by associating stdin with a file that is misinterpreted as the console TTY.
Affected configurations
• x.org x server
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
• debian debian linux
• ubuntu linux
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652249 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2364 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1349-1 Vendor Advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652249 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2364 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1349-1 Vendor Advisory