Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-0823 - Information Disclosure vulnerability in Slackware Linux 10.2
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE local
slackware
Summary
xterm on Slackware Linux 10.2 stores information that had been displayed for a different user account using the same xterm process, which might allow local users to bypass file permissions and read other users' files, or obtain other sensitive information, by reading the xterm process memory. NOTE: it could be argued that this is an expected consequence of multiple users sharing the same interactive process, in which case this is not a vulnerability.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 1 |
Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2007-02-09 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | Red Hat does not consider this issue to be a security vulnerability. It is correct and expected behavior for xterm not to zero-fill its scrollback buffer upon reception of terminal clear excape sequence. |