{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"important"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2016-2856","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"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.","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2016-2856","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2856"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 1123874 for CVE-2016-2856","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1123874"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2016-2856","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-02-18T15:46:18Z","generator":{"date":"2023-06-27T01:41:10Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2016-2856","initial_release_date":"2023-06-27T01:41:10Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2023-06-27T01:41:10Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-01-01T10:03:33Z","number":"3","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-02-18T15:46:18Z","number":"4","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"4"}}}