CVE-2014-9680

N/A

Description

sudo before 1.8.12 does not ensure that the TZ environment variable is associated with a zoneinfo file, which allows local users to open arbitrary files for read access (but not view file contents) by running a program within an sudo session, as demonstrated by interfering with terminal output, discarding kernel-log messages, or repositioning tape drives.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published4/24/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

sudo_project:sudo

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/15/24(cve@mitre.org)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1409.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033158(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.sudo.ws/alerts/tz.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-02(cve@mitre.org)

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/15/24(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1409.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033158(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.sudo.ws/alerts/tz.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-02(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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