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CVE-2005-4890

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".

Impact

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 products

VendorProductAffected versions
DebianShadow
from 4.0.0 through 4.1.5
Sudo ProjectSudo
from 1.3.0 through 1.7.4
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Versions 4, 5, 6.0

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