CVE-2009-0141

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of another user.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-732

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937Broken Link
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.htmlBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422Permissions Required
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48727Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937Broken Link
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.htmlBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422Permissions Required
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48727Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Timeline

Published: Feb 13, 2009
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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