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rxvt-unicode TTY Device Insecure Permissions Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA18301
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Release Date:
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2006-01-05
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Last Update:
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2006-01-25
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Popularity:
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6,411 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | rxvt-unicode 5.x
rxvt-unicode 6.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in rxvt-unicode, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.
The vulnerability is caused due to insecure permissions (world-readable and world-writable) being set on certain TTY devices. This can potentially be exploited by malicious users to read from or write to the devices.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 6.3 and only affect systems which uses non-unix PTYS (e.g. most BSDs).
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