Sudo Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-0184

Sudo before 1.6.6 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow that may allow local users to gain root privileges via special characters in the -p (prompt) argument, which are not properly...

CVE-2002-0043

sudo 1.6.0 through 1.6.3p7 does not properly clear the environment before calling the mail program, which could allow local users to gain root privileges by modifying environment variables and changing how the mail program is...

CVE-1999-1496

Sudo 1.5 in Debian Linux 2.1 and Red Hat 6.0 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files by attempting to execute the target filename as a program, which generates a different error message when the file does not...

CVE-1999-0958

sudo 1.5.x allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a .. (dot dot)...