CVE-2015-6565 (GCVE-0-2015-6565)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-24 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:22
VLAI
Summary
sshd in OpenSSH 6.8 and 6.9 uses world-writable permissions for TTY devices, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (terminal disruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to a device, as demonstrated by writing an escape sequence.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2310 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2015-08-01 00:00
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