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CVE-2009-0141

XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of another user.

Published

2009-02-13T00:30:05.077

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 5.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-732

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	apple	mac_os_x	10.4.11	Yes
Operating System	apple	mac_os_x	10.5.6	Yes
Operating System	apple	mac_os_x_server	10.4.11	Yes
Operating System	apple	mac_os_x_server	10.5.6	Yes

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422 Permissions Required ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48727 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422 Permissions Required (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48727 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)