xterm, including 192-7.el4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 208-3.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, sets the wrong group ownership of tty devices, which allows local users to write data to other users' terminals.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T13:49:57.395Z

Reserved: 2007-05-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-2797

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-08-27T17:17:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-2797

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2006-12-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-2797 - Bugzilla

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