CVE-2005-2959 (GCVE-0-2005-2959)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-10-25 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 22:53
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/17666 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/18549 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-870 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/17322 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/17390 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15191 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/17345 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/17318 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://usn.ubuntu.com/213-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9643 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENPKG
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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