sudo: It was discovered that the default sudo configuration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and possibly other Linux implementations preserves the value of INPUTRC which could lead to information disclosure. A local user with sudo access to a restricted program that uses readline could use this flaw to read content from specially formatted files with elevated privileges provided by sudo.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92615 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2016-05/msg00009.html | Third Party Advisory |
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2593.html | Patch Vendor Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2016-12-22T21:00:00
Updated: 2016-12-22T20:57:01
Reserved: 2016-08-25T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-7091
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2016-12-22T21:59:00.113
Modified: 2016-12-23T18:17:50.273
Link: CVE-2016-7091
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE