CVE-2013-2207
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.6
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Fedora Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Affected | — |
| 18 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.21-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.21-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.21-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.21-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.21-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnu | glibc | 2.0.4 | |
| gnu | glibc | {"endIncluding":"2.17"} | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.0 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.0.1 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.0.2 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.0.3 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.0.5 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.0.6 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.1 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.1.1 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.1.1.6 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.1.2 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.1.3 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.1.9 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.10.1 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.11 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.11.1 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.11.2 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.11.3 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.12.1 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.12.2 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.13 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.14 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.14.1 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.15 | |
| gnu | glibc | 2.16 | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2207.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55113
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976408
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15755
- https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00160.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2207
CWEs
CWE-264
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