CVE-2008-0216

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 17 years ago

2008-01-16 02:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-08 01:29:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 6.0

6.0

FreeBSD 6.1

6.1

FreeBSD 6.2

6.2

FreeBSD 6.3

6.3

FreeBSD 7.0

7.0

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