CVE-2005-4890 (GCVE-0-2005-4890)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-04 18:38 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- tty hijacking possible in "su" via TIOCSTI ioctl
Assigner
References
11 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/15/5 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-4890 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/06/8 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/20/3 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/1… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/29/5 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/20/9 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/21/1 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/25/6 | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
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