CVE-2008-3067 (GCVE-0-2008-3067)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-07-07 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:21
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Summary
sudo in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 does not clear the stdin buffer when password entry times out, which might allow local users to obtain a password by reading stdin from the parent process after a sudo child process exits.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2008-07-04 00:00
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