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CVE-2005-2959

Published: 25 October 2005

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.

Priority

Unknown

Status

Package Release Status
sudo
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper
Released (1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6)
edgy
Released (1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6)
feisty
Released (1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6)
upstream Needs triage