CVE-2016-2856
HighSummary
In glibc versions before 2.19-18+deb8u4 on Debian jessie and before 2.15-0ubuntu10.14 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 2.19-0ubuntu6.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 2.21-0ubuntu4.2 on Ubuntu 15.10, and 2.23-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10, there is a lack of namespace check associated with file-descriptor passing. This allows local users to capture keystrokes and spoof data, potentially gaining privileges.
Risk Assessment
This vulnerability poses a risk to local users who may exploit it to capture data and potentially gain elevated privileges in the system.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update glibc to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to avoid using the --enable-pt_chown option as per upstream documentation.
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Original NVD description (English source)
pt_chown in the glibc package before 2.19-18+deb8u4 on Debian jessie; the elibc package before 2.15-0ubuntu10.14 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and before 2.19-0ubuntu6.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; and the glibc package before 2.21-0ubuntu4.2 on Ubuntu 15.10 and before 2.23-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10 lacks a namespace check associated with file-descriptor passing, which allows local users to capture keystrokes and spoof data, and possibly gain privileges, via pts read and write operations, related to debian/sysdeps/linux.mk. NOTE: this is not considered a vulnerability in the upstream GNU C Library because the upstream documentation has a clear security recommendation against the --enable-pt_chown option.