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Ask the Team  Mailing Lists  Advertising Info  Advisories  About SecuriTeam  Blogs Brought to you by: Suppliers of: Website Testing Tools Network Testing Tools Software Testing Tools SecuriTeam in Your Inbox New vulnerability? New tool? Tell us (Our PGP key). CanSecWest 2012 2nd Annual Cyber Security Hack In Paris	Mac OS X Insecure pty Permissions 5 May 2005    Summary pty is "a parallel terminal device in Unix that allow users to communicate with the operating system in command line". Mac OS X doesn't provide any mechanism for non-setuid-root programs to change permissions on ptys allowing any local user to sniff the tty connection.   Credit: The information has been provided by Matt Johnston . Website Security Scan Code Vulnerability Test Network Assessment Tool Detect hidden vulnerabilities Exhaustive automated testing Real-time, continuous security Get guidance from professionals of internal or 3rd party code. scanning for your entire network    Details Protect your website! Use an External Vulnerability Scanner! Nothing to install. First report in 1 hour! www.beyondsecurity.com/vulnerability-scanner Vulnerable Systems:  * Mac OS X 10.3 family and prior Immune Systems:  * Mac OS X 10.4 Due to lack of ability to change permissions of pty, xterms, screen sessions, and Terminal.app windows (with explicitly specified commands) are vulnerable to tty sniffing. Using Terminal.app's standard terminal with /usr/bin/login is safe since login is setuid root. Example: arctic:~> screen ... new screen session starts ... arctic:~> ls -l $TTY crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 4, 2 1 May 16:44 /dev/ttyp2 The fixed problem in Mac OS X now sets the devfs permissions on openpty().  Comments: blog comments powered by Disqus	All Sections Security News Unix focus Exploits Tools Windows focus Security Reviews  Related Articles HP Data Protector LogBackupLocationStatus SQL Injection Vulnerabilty InduSoft WebStudio Unauthenticated Operations Code Execution Vulnerabilityy InduSoft WebStudio CEServer Operation 0x15 Code Execution Vulnerability HP Data Protector Notebook Extension RequestCopy SQL Injection Vulnerabilty HP Data Protector Notebook Extension LogClientInstallation SQL Injection Vulnerabilty HP Data Protector Notebook Extension GetPolicies SQL Injection Vulnerabilty GE Proficy Historian ihDataArchiver.exe Trusted Header Size Code Execution Vulnerability HP Data Protector Notebook Extension LogClientHealth SQL Injection Vulnerabilty HP Data Protector Notebook Extension LogCopyOperation SQL Injection Vulnerabilty HP Data Protector Notebook Extension FinishedCopy SQL Injection Vulnerabilty Novell ZENWorks Software Packaging ISGrid.Grid2.1 Text Parameter Code Execution Vulnerabilit Adobe Reader BMP Image RLE Decoding Code Execution Vulnerability Apple QuickTime H264 Matrix Conversion Code Execution Vulnerability Apple QuickTime FLC Delta Decompression Code Execution Vulnerability Apple Quicktime PnPixPat PatType 3 Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability  Featured Articles ProFTPD Response Pool Use-After-Free Code Execution Vulnerability HP Data Protector Notebook Extension LogClientInstallation SQL Injection Vulnerabilty GE Proficy Historian ihDataArchiver.exe Trusted Header Size Code Execution Vulnerability Novell ZENWorks Software Packaging Antique ActiveX Control Code Execution Vulnerability Adobe Reader U3D IFF RGBA Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability Adobe Reader U3D PCX Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability Cisco Unified Service Monitor brstart add_dm Code Execution Vulnerability
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