CVE-2008-0216

CVE-2008-0216 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

The ptsname function in FreeBSD 6.0 through 7.0-PRERELEASE does not properly verify that a certain portion of a device name is associated with a pty of a user who is calling the pt_chown function, which might allow local users to read data from the pty from another user.

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