CVE-2013-2207: Fedoraproject Fedora

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pt_chown in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.18 does not properly check permissions for tty files, which allows local users to change the permission on the files and obtain access to arbitrary pseudo-terminals by leveraging a FUSE file system.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 18 only; version 19 only
• GNU Glibc: up to and including 2.17; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-10-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.