Bug 174845 - CVE-2005-3631 /dev/input/* incorrect permissions
Summary: CVE-2005-3631 /dev/input/* incorrect permissions
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: udev
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Harald Hoyer
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=important,embargo=20051220,rep...
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Blocks: 168430
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-12-02 18:09 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2015-10-13 14:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-864
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-12-20 14:23:27 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:864 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: udev security update 2005-12-20 05:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-12-02 18:09:08 UTC 
/dev/input/* incorrect permissions

This issue was reported to secalert by Richard Cunningham
/dev/input/* has permissions set to 644 by default.
This makes it possible for any user to sniff local user input
(password capturing being the most dangerous).
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-12-05 20:12:22 UTC 
Harald,

What's your plan for this?  I've not communicated this to vendor-sec yet as I
would like to know what an appropriate embargo date should be?
Comment 9 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-12-20 14:23:27 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-864.html
Comment 10 Josh Bressers 2005-12-20 15:13:37 UTC 
Lifting embargo
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