Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package readline.src (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-READLINESRC-15133160
- published29 Jan 2026
- disclosed24 May 2016
Introduced: 24 May 2016
CVE-2016-7091 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream readline.src package and not the readline.src package as distributed by RHEL.
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.