Description
gnome-pty-helper in GNOME libzvt2 and libvte4 allows local users to spoof the logon hostname via a modified DISPLAY environment variable. NOTE: the severity of this issue has been disputed.
Affected products
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1931 ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112879572407250&w=2 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15004 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22496 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17023 ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330907 ↗
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317312 ↗