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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2016-03-14T01:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T23:40:13.594Z
Reserved: 2016-03-06T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-2856
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2016-03-14T01:59:04.950
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:48:57.250
Link: CVE-2016-2856
Redhat
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