CVE-2007-1400 Information

Description

Plash permits sandboxed processes to open /dev/tty which allows local users to escape sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary commands by sending characters to a shell process on the same termimal via the TIOCSTI ioctl.

Reference

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/plash/2007-03/msg00000.html http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/PlashIssues/TtyVulnerability http://secunia.com/advisories/24498 http://www.osvdb.org/32598 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22892 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0909