Improper Input Validation Affecting shadow package, versions <1:4.1.5-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Red Hat
high
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-SHADOW-306188
- published 27 Jun 2018
- disclosed 4 Nov 2019
Introduced: 27 Jun 2018
CVE-2005-4890 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
shadow
to version 1:4.1.5-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream shadow
package and not the shadow
package as distributed by Debian:10
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
There is a possible tty hijacking in shadow 4.x before 4.1.5 and sudo 1.x before 1.7.4 via "su - user -c program". The user session can be escaped to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the input buffer to be read by the next process.