CVE-2008-3067

Published Jul 7, 2008

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
2.1
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-255

Vendor comments

  • Red HatNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of sudo as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

Configurations