vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-10369: Improper Access Control

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 8, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

unixsocket.c in lxterminal through 0.3.0 insecurely uses /tmp for a socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service (preventing terminal launch), or possibly have other impact (bypassing terminal access control).

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-lxterminal
Title
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