NuytsTech Security

CVE-2005-1831

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** DISPUTED **

Sudo 1.6.8p7 on SuSE Linux 9.3, and possibly other Linux distributions, allows local users to gain privileges by using sudo to call su, then entering a blank password and hitting CTRL-C. NOTE: SuSE and multiple third-party researchers have not been able to replicate this issue, stating "Sudo catches SIGINT and returns an empty string for the password so I don’t see how this could happen unless the user’s actual password was empty."

Date published : 2005-06-02

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-05/0359.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-05/0349.html

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