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Published: 23/08/1999 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 465

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The pt_chown command in Linux allows local users to modify TTY terminal devices that belong to other users.

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// source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/597/info // pt_chown is a program included with glibc 21x that exists to aid the proper allocation of terminals for non-suid programs that don't have devpts support It is installed setuid root, and is shipped with RedHat Linux 60 As it stands, pt_chown is vulnerable to an attack that allows maliciou ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/597 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=lcamtuf.4.05.9907041223290.355-300000%40nimue.ids.pl https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19467/

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