CVE-2005-2959 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-2959 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 140300 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 145687 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 159599 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:025, published Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2006:002, published Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:56:42 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:13:31 2023