CVE-2013-2207 — Glibc vulnerability
Severity
2.6LOWNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 78.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 9
Latest updateMay 17
Description
pt_chown in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.18 does not properly check permissions for tty files, which allows local users to change the permission on the files and obtain access to arbitrary pseudo-terminals by leveraging a FUSE file system.
CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:H/C:P/I:P/A:NExploitability: 1.9 | Impact: 4.9
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Fedora 18, 19
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
5📋Vendor Advisories
3💬Community
2Bugzilla▶
glibc: CVE-2013-2207 glibc (pt_chown): Improper pseudotty ownership and permissions changes when granting access to the slave pseudoterminal [fedora-all]↗2013-07-16
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2013-2207 glibc (pt_chown): Improper pseudotty ownership and permissions changes when granting access to the slave pseudoterminal↗2013-06-20