CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-1000368
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Todd Miller's sudo version 1.8.20p1 and earlier is vulnerable to an input validation (embedded newlines) in the get_process_ttyname() function resulting in information disclosure and command execution.
Affected configurations
• sudo project sudo (<= 1.8.20)
• sudo project sudo 1.8.20
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98838 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1574 Third Party Advisory
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10205 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-04 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/linux_tty.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98838 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1574 Third Party Advisory
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10205 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-04 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/linux_tty.html Vendor Advisory