Aterm Terminal Permission Weakness

BID:10723

Info

Aterm Terminal Permission Weakness

Bugtraq ID: 10723
Class: Configuration Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jul 13 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 13 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Maarten Tielemans <[email protected]> discovered this issue with help from alsdk.
Vulnerable: aterm aterm 0.4.2
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Aterm Terminal Permission Weakness

It is reported that aterm incorrectly sets the permission on the users terminal device.

This flaw may allow an attacker with local interactive access to sent arbitrary data to aterm. An attacker may use this ability to exploit vulnerabilities in aterm, such as BID 6949 (ATerm Menu Bar Escape Sequence Command Execution Vulnerability).

Exploit / POC

Aterm Terminal Permission Weakness

No exploit is required.

Solution / Fix

Aterm Terminal Permission Weakness

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

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