CWE
264
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2005-2959

First published: Tue Oct 25 2005(Updated: )

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.

Credit: security@debian.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3p1
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3_p6
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3p3
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.6
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3p2
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.4_p2
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.1
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3_p5
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.2
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.8
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.4_p1
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3_p2
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3_p4
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.5_p2
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.4p1
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.5p2
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.5
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3_p3
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.5_p1
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3p4
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3p6
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3p7
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3_p7
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.4
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.7
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3p5
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.3_p1
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.4p2
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.5p1
Todd Miller Sudo=1.6.7_p5

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