CVE-2004-1689 Affecting sudo package, versions <1.6.8p3-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-SUDO-407004
  • published16 Sept 2004
  • disclosed16 Sept 2004

Introduced: 16 Sep 2004

CVE-2004-1689  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 sudo to version 1.6.8p3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sudo package and not the sudo package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

sudoedit (aka sudo -e) in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit.

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