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CVE-2007-2797

Impact:: Low
Public Date:: 2006-12-19

Bugzilla:: 239070: CVE-2007-2797 Wrong settings for the tty (mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty')

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2007-2797 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (xterm)	RHSA-2007:0701	2007-11-15

Last Modified 2018-04-30T22:12:16+00:00

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