CVE-2008-3067

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-3067
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-07-07 23:41:00 UTC
Updated2017-08-08 01:31:00 UTC
Descriptionsudo 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-255

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Suse Opensuse 10.3 All All All
Application Suse Opensuse 10.3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2008:014 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-07-08Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of sudo as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
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