CVE-2016-2856

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2856
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2856.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2856
Related
Published
2016-03-14T01:59:04Z
Modified
2024-06-30T12:00:03Z
Severity
  • 8.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

ptchown in the glibc package before 2.19-18+deb8u4 on Debian jessie; the elibc package before 2.15-0ubuntu10.14 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and before 2.19-0ubuntu6.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; and the glibc package before 2.21-0ubuntu4.2 on Ubuntu 15.10 and before 2.23-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10 lacks a namespace check associated with file-descriptor passing, which allows local users to capture keystrokes and spoof data, and possibly gain privileges, via pts read and write operations, related to debian/sysdeps/linux.mk. NOTE: this is not considered a vulnerability in the upstream GNU C Library because the upstream documentation has a clear security recommendation against the --enable-ptchown option.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / glibc

Package

Name
glibc
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.21-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:12 / glibc

Package

Name
glibc
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.21-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:13 / glibc

Package

Name
glibc
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.21-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}