CVE-2008-0216: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ptsname function in FreeBSD 6.0 through 7.0-PRERELEASE does not properly verify that a certain portion of a device name is associated with a pty of a user who is calling the pt_chown function, which might allow local users to read data from the pty from another user.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2008-01-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.