CVE-2005-4890

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductDebian Shadow
PublishedNov 4, 2019
First seenNov 4, 2019

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
debian shadow4.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.1.5—
sudo_project sudo1.3.0 ≤ v ≤ 1.7.4—
debian debian_linux8.0, 9.0, 10.0—
redhat enterprise_linux4, 5, 6.0—

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