CVE-2005-4890

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-4890
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-04 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-18 15:05:00 UTC
DescriptionThere 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Debian Shadow All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Application Sudo Project Sudo All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: Multiple disputed issues in util-vserver MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2005-4890 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
710208 – (CVE-2005-4890) CVE-2005-4890 coreutils: tty hijacking possible in "su" via TIOCSTI ioctl MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - AW: Multiple disputed issues in util-vserver MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - tty-hijacking & CVE-2005-4890 - redux MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: Multiple disputed issues in util-vserver MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE Request: adequate: privilege escalation via tty hijacking MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE Request: pkexec tty hijacking via TIOCSTI ioctl MISC www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE Request: adequate: privilege escalation via tty hijacking MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: Re: TTY handling when executing code in different lower-privileged context (su, virt containers) MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2005-4890 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory
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