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CVE-2005-4890 is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. Exploits are available; patches have been released and should be applied urgently.
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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.
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux |
| Debian | Shadow |
| Sudo Project | Sudo |
| Debian | Debian Linux |