National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1142
Original release date:04/07/2008
Last revised:02/26/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
rxvt 2.6.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections. NOTE: it was later reported that rxvt-unicode, mrxvt, aterm, multi-aterm, and wterm are also affected. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Official Statement from Red Hat (04/14/2008)
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-1142
This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. Due to the minimal security consequences of this issue, we do not intend to fix this in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
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External Source: BID
Name: 28512
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:221
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:161
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200805-03
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31687
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30229
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30227
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30226
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30225
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30224
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29576
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:017
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469296
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/122
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)
