SB2011041805 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in tmux
Published: April 18, 2011 Updated: August 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2011041805
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1496)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
tmux 1.3 and 1.4 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows local users to gain utmp group privileges via a filename to the -S command-line option.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058367.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058452.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058548.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44081
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44239
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2212
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17147
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47283
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0897
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1002
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1015
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66693