CVE-2008-1692

Publication date

2008-04-07 18:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Eterm 0.9.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if -display is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine.