CVE-2005-4890

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Red Hat
Status
shadow
sudo
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 November 2019

Summary

There is a possible tty hijacking in shadow 4.x before 4.1.5 and sudo 1.x before 1.7.4 via "su - user -c program". The user session can be escaped to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the input buffer to be read by the next process.

Affected Version(s)

shadow 4.x before 4.1.5

sudo 1.x before 1.7.4

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/15/5
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https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4890
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2005-4890
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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