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.
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Information
Published : 2016-03-13 18:59
Updated : 2016-11-28 12:05
NVD link : CVE-2016-2856
Mitre link : CVE-2016-2856
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CWE
CWE-264
Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
gnu
- glibc