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 products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/linux_tty.html ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-04 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98838 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1574 ↗
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10205 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-1/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-2/ ↗