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tmux: privilege escalation

Package(s):tmux CVE #(s):CVE-2011-1496
Created:April 8, 2011 Updated:April 19, 2011
Description: From the Debian advisory:

Daniel Danner discovered that tmux, a terminal multiplexer, is not properly dropping group privileges. Due to a patch introduced by Debian, when invoked with the -S option, tmux is not dropping permissions obtained through its setgid installation.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2011-5156 tmux 2011-04-10
Fedora FEDORA-2011-5167 tmux 2011-04-10
Debian DSA-2212-1 tmux 2011-04-07

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