CVE-2005-2959

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Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.6 EPSS 0.00128

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Affected Products & Versions

todd miller sudoall versions

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Public Exploits & PoCs

pocwww.securityfocus.com · 15191www.securityfocus.com

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productlowLinux Sudo Chroot Execution

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4.6

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · security@debian.org

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v2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published to NVD25 Oct 2005 · 04:02 PM

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Vendor Advisories

usnUSN-213-1

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References & Sources

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/17318Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/17322Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/17345Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/17390PatchVendor Advisory

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http://secunia.com/advisories/17666Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/18549Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/24479Vendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-870PatchVendor Advisory

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:201

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html

http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.002-sudo.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9643Vendor Advisory

http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.htmlUS Government Resource

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930Vendor Advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/213-1/

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