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CVE-2007-2797 json

xterm, including 192-7.el4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 208-3.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, sets the wrong group ownership of tty devices, whic…

published 2007-08-27 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-2789

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

xterm, including 192-7.el4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 208-3.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, sets the wrong group ownership of tty devices, which allows local users to write data to other users' terminals.

Patch / fix

  • xterm RHEL 4 192-8.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2007:0701

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-2797 updated

(mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty')

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 xterm 192-8.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 xterm 192-8.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 xterm 192-8.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 xterm 192-8.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0701

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

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