CVE-2008-0216

Publication date

2008-01-16 01:00:00

Family

freebsd

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.