CVE-2008-0216 (GCVE-0-2008-0216)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-01-16 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 07:39
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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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