Bug#329156: /usr/sbin/gnome-pty-helper: writes arbitrary utmp records

Loïc Minier lool at dooz.org
Mon Sep 26 08:37:48 UTC 2005


        Hi,

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005, Paul Szabo wrote:
> gnome-pty-helper can be made to write utmp/wtmp records with arbitrary
> DISPLAY (host) settings. I am not sure if it can be tricked into erasing
> existing records.

 Thanks for your report.

 Do you have a CVE ID for this security issue?

 Did you check whether libvte4 is affected?

 Do you have a fix?

   Thanks,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>




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