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CVE-2005-2959

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 befo…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Todd MillerSudo
Versions 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.3_p1, 1.6.3_p2

Weakness classification

CWE-264

References