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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 before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.

Published

2005-10-25T16:02:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.6 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-264

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.1	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.2	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3_p1	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3_p2	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3_p3	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3_p4	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3_p5	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3_p6	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3_p7	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3p1	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3p2	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3p3	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3p4	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3p5	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3p6	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.3p7	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.4	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.4_p1	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.4_p2	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.4p1	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.4p2	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.5	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.5_p1	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.5_p2	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.5p1	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.5p2	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.6	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.7	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.7_p5	Yes
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.8	Yes

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 ([email protected])
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/17318 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/17322 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/17345 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/17390 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/17666 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/18549 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-870 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:201 ([email protected])
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html ([email protected])
http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.002-sudo.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9643 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15191 Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182 ([email protected])
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html US Government Resource ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://usn.ubuntu.com/213-1/ ([email protected])
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/17318 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/17322 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/17345 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/17390 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/17666 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/18549 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-870 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:201 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.002-sudo.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9643 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15191 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html US Government Resource (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://usn.ubuntu.com/213-1/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)