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CVE Reference: CVE-2004-1689 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2004-1689 |
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Description: 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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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17424 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA12596 OSVDB 10023 MISC http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt CONFIRM http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html CIAC http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml CERT-VN 424358 BUGTRAQ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2 BID 11204 |
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