Description
XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of another user.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48727 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 ↗
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 ↗
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422 ↗
- http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.html ↗