Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sudo  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-SUDO-606471
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed22 Dec 2016

Introduced: 22 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-7091  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sudo package and not the sudo package as distributed by Debian.

sudo: It was discovered that the default sudo configuration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and possibly other Linux implementations preserves the value of INPUTRC which could lead to information disclosure. A local user with sudo access to a restricted program that uses readline could use this flaw to read content from specially formatted files with elevated privileges provided by sudo.