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CVE-2012-0809 (GCVE-0-2012-0809)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-02-01 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:38
VLAI
Summary
Format string vulnerability in the sudo_debug function in Sudo 1.8.0 through 1.8.3p1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string sequences in the program name for sudo.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-01-30 00:00
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