CVE-2008-1692

Description

Eterm 0.9.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if -display is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28512

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:222

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/29577

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473127

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3