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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0216 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2008-0216 |
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Description: 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. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/39667 ST 1019191 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA28498 FREEBSD http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:01.pty.asc BID 27284 |
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