SB2011041005 - Fedora EPEL 6 update for tmux
Published: April 10, 2011 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2011041005
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1496)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
tmux 1.3 and 1.4 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows local users to gain utmp group privileges via a filename to the -S command-line option.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.