CVE-1999-1496

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Sudo 1.5 in Debian Linux 2.1 and Red Hat 6.0 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files by attempting to execute the target filename as a program, which generates a different error message when the file does not exist.

Sudo 1.5 in Debian Linux 2.1 and Red Hat 6.0 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files by attempting to execute the target filename as a program, which generates a different error message when the file does not exist.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 25 years ago

1999-06-08 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

Debian Debian Linux 2.1

2.1

Red Hat Linux 6.0

6.0

References

19990608 unneeded information in sudo

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

321

Vendor Advisory

sudo-file-exists(2277)

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