CVE-2005-2959

CVE-2005-2959 concerns sudo 1.6.8 and earlier, where the SHELLOPTS and PS4 environment variables are not cleared during privilege-escalation prompts. The result is a local privilege escalation when a user with limited sudo privileges runs a bash script, as these variables can be passed through to...

CVE-2005-2959: Undefined Security Weakness

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the 1 SHELLOPTS and 2 PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are...