CVE-2007-2797 Information

Description

xterm including 192-7.el4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 208-3.1 in Debian GNU/Linux sets the wrong group ownership of tty devices which allows local users to write data to other users’ terminals.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=349924 http://secunia.com/advisories/26562 http://secunia.com/advisories/27617 http://secunia.com/advisories/27921 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3066 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-490.htm http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0701.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477469/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477632/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26710 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239070 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1396 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10421