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CVE-2005-4890 Detail

Current Description

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.

Source:  MITRE
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Severity

 


CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score: 7.8 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/06/8 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/20/3 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/28/10 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/29/5 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/20/9 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/21/1 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/15/5 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/25/6 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-4890 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2005-4890 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4890 Third Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.3

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:/a:debian:shadow
     Show Matching CPE(s)
From (including)
4.0.0		Up to (including)
4.1.5
 cpe:/a:sudo_project:sudo
     Show Matching CPE(s)
From (including)
1.3.0		Up to (including)
1.7.4

Configuration 2 ( hide )
 cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0
     Show Matching CPE(s)
 cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0
     Show Matching CPE(s)
 cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10
     Show Matching CPE(s)

Configuration 3 ( hide )
 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4
     Show Matching CPE(s)
 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5
     Show Matching CPE(s)
 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0
     Show Matching CPE(s)


Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-4890
NVD Published Date:
11/04/2019
NVD Last Modified:
11/08/2019