A vulnerability has been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions and gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an error in aterm, Eterm, Mrxvt, multi-aterm, RXVT, rxvt-unicode, and wterm that open a terminal on :0 when the "-display" option is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which could be exploited by malicious users to hijack X11 terminals of other users.
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2008-05-09 : Initial release
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