cve-2004-1689
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-02-20 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 01:00
Severity ?
Summary
sudoedit (aka sudo -e) in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/12596Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.osvdb.org/10023Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/12596Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/10023Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424
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