CVE-2013-2207

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions glibc versions prior to 2.18

Description The issue concerns a problem with pt chown in the GNU C Library, where it does not properly check permissions for tty files. This allows local users to change the permission on the files and obtain access to arbitrary pseudo-terminals by leveraging a FUSE file system.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.18, update to version 2.18 or later to resolve the issue.