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CVE-2013-6409

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Debian adequate before 0.8.1, when run by root with the --user option, allows local users to hijack the tty and possibly gain privileges via the TIOCSTI ioctl.

Affected products

• Debian Adequate: through 0.8; 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.2, 0.2.1, 0.3.1, 0.4 (+11)

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730691
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63994
• https://bitbucket.org/jwilk/adequate/raw/tip/debian/changelog
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730691
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63994
• https://bitbucket.org/jwilk/adequate/raw/tip/debian/changelog

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