pt_chown 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-pt_chown option.
| Type | CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| text | N/A | n/a |
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| CAPEC ID | Description |
|---|
| Event | Date |
|---|
| Hyperlink | Resource |
|---|---|
| http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/PtChownArbitraryPtsAccessViaUserNamespace/ | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-glibc/glibc.git/commit/?h=jessie&id=11475c083282c1582c4dd72eecfcb2b7d308c958 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/2 | mailing-list x_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84601 | vdb-entry x_refsource_BID |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-2856.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-glibc/glibc.git/commit/?h=jessie&id=09f7764882a81e13e7b5d87d715412283a6ce403 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/23/3 | mailing-list x_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_UBUNTU |
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| CAPEC ID | Description |
|---|
| Event | Date |
|---|
| Hyperlink | Resource |
|---|---|
| http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/PtChownArbitraryPtsAccessViaUserNamespace/ | x_refsource_MISC x_transferred |
| http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-glibc/glibc.git/commit/?h=jessie&id=11475c083282c1582c4dd72eecfcb2b7d308c958 | x_refsource_CONFIRM x_transferred |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/2 | mailing-list x_refsource_MLIST x_transferred |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84601 | vdb-entry x_refsource_BID x_transferred |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_UBUNTU x_transferred |
| http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-2856.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM x_transferred |
| http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-glibc/glibc.git/commit/?h=jessie&id=09f7764882a81e13e7b5d87d715412283a6ce403 | x_refsource_CONFIRM x_transferred |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/23/3 | mailing-list x_refsource_MLIST x_transferred |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_UBUNTU x_transferred |