CVE-2005-1831
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-06-02 04:00
Modified
2025-01-16 19:09
Severity ?
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Sudo 1.6.8p7 on SuSE Linux 9.3, and possibly other Linux distributions, allows local users to gain privileges by using sudo to call su, then entering a blank password and hitting CTRL-C. NOTE: SuSE and multiple third-party researchers have not been able to replicate this issue, stating "Sudo catches SIGINT and returns an empty string for the password so I don't see how this could happen unless the user's actual password was empty.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-05/0349.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-05/0359.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111755694008928&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.osvdb.org/20417
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-05/0349.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-05/0359.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111755694008928&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/20417
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