CVE-2016-2856 (GCVE-0-2016-2856)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-03-14 01:00
Modified
2024-08-05 23:40
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
pt_chown in the glibc package before 2.19-18+deb8u4 on Debian jessie; the elibc package before 2.15-0ubuntu10.14 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and before 2.19-0ubuntu6.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; and the glibc package before 2.21-0ubuntu4.2 on Ubuntu 15.10 and before 2.23-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10 lacks a namespace check associated with file-descriptor passing, which allows local users to capture keystrokes and spoof data, and possibly gain privileges, via pts read and write operations, related to debian/sysdeps/linux.mk. NOTE: this is not considered a vulnerability in the upstream GNU C Library because the upstream documentation has a clear security recommendation against the --enable-pt_chown option.
References
cve@mitre.org http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-glibc/glibc.git/commit/?h=jessie&id=09f7764882a81e13e7b5d87d715412283a6ce403
cve@mitre.org http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-glibc/glibc.git/commit/?h=jessie&id=11475c083282c1582c4dd72eecfcb2b7d308c958
cve@mitre.org http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-2856.html
cve@mitre.org http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/PtChownArbitraryPtsAccessViaUserNamespace/
cve@mitre.org http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/23/3
cve@mitre.org http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/2
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84601
cve@mitre.org http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
cve@mitre.org http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-glibc/glibc.git/commit/?h=jessie&id=09f7764882a81e13e7b5d87d715412283a6ce403
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-glibc/glibc.git/commit/?h=jessie&id=11475c083282c1582c4dd72eecfcb2b7d308c958
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-2856.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/PtChownArbitraryPtsAccessViaUserNamespace/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/23/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84601
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2
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