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Red Hat update for xterm
Secunia Advisory: SA27617
Release Date: 2007-11-16
Popularity: 4,978 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for xterm. This fixes a security issue, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to xterm setting incorrect group ownership for pseudo terminals. This may be exploited to modify another user's xterm session.

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