CVE-2014-9680 (GCVE-0-2014-9680)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-04-24 06:12
Modified
2024-08-06 13:55
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
sudo before 1.8.12 does not ensure that the TZ environment variable is associated with a zoneinfo file, which allows local users to open arbitrary files for read access (but not view file contents) by running a program within an sudo session, as demonstrated by interfering with terminal output, discarding kernel-log messages, or repositioning tape drives.
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