[SA18301] rxvt-unicode TTY Device Insecure Permissions Vulnerability

TITLE: rxvt-unicode TTY Device Insecure Permissions Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA18301 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/18301/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Security Bypass WHERE: Local system SOFTWARE: rxvt-unicode 5.x http://secunia.com/product/4777/ rxvt-unicode 6.x...

CVE-2002-0824

CVE-2002-0824 affects BSD pppd, where a symlink attack on a file specified as a tty device allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary files. The description states this is a local privilege/subversion of permissions vulnerability, but the connected documents do not provide additional t...

Symbolic link problem in pppd

It's possible to change file permisions via symbolic link by using it as a tty device...

CVE-2000-0364

screen and rxvt in Red Hat Linux 6.0 do not properly set the modes of tty devices, which allows local users to write to other ttys...

pam_console.bug

When accepting luser console login, pamconsole called by /bin/login tries to be user-friendly, doing several chowns on devices like login tty and corresponding vcsa device, as well as other interesting devices: fd, audio devices dsp, mixer, audio, midi, sequencer, cdrom, streamer/zip drive device...