FKIE_CVE-2005-2959
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2005-10-25 16:02 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:15
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.1 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.2 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3_p1 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3_p2 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3_p3 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3_p4 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3_p5 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3_p6 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3_p7 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3p1 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3p2 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3p3 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3p4 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3p5 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3p6 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.3p7 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.4 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.4_p1 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.4_p2 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.4p1 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.4p2 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.5 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.5_p1 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.5_p2 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.5p1 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.5p2 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.6 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.7 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.7_p5 | |
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.8 |
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