CVE-2005-0023 Information

Description

gnome-pty-helper in GNOME libzvt2 and libvte4 allows local users to spoof the logon hostname via a modified DISPLAY environment variable. NOTE: the severity of this issue has been disputed.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330907 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317312 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112879572407250&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17023 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15004 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1931 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22496