CVE-2005-4890

coreutils: tty hijacking possible in "su" via TIOCSTI ioctl

Published Nov 4, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-4881 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.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00159}

epss

{'score': 0.00163}

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 8, 2024, 12:01 AM
Reserved
Dec 19, 2011, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 4, 2019, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:19 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Jul 26, 2004, 12:00 AM