CVE-2008-0217

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

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 5.0

5.0

FreeBSD 5.5

5.5

FreeBSD 6.0

6.0

FreeBSD 6.1

6.1

FreeBSD 6.2

6.2

FreeBSD 7.0

7.0

References

28498

FreeBSD-SA-08:01

Patch

27284

1019191

freebsd-openpty-information-disclosure(39665)

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