CVE-2002-0184

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Heap-based buffer overflow in sudo before 1.6.6 may allow local users to gain root privileges via special characters in the -p (prompt) argument, which are not properly expanded.

Heap-based buffer overflow in sudo before 1.6.6 may allow local users to gain root privileges via special characters in the -p (prompt) argument, which are not properly expanded.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 22 years ago

2002-05-16 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:16:00

Affected Software

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6

1.6

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.1

1.6.1

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.2

1.6.2

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3

1.6.3

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.4

1.6.4

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.4p2

1.6.4p2

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.5

1.6.5

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