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CVE-2002-0184 (GCVE-0-2002-0184)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-04-02 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:42
VLAI
Summary
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 expanded.
CWE
  • n/a
References
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Date Public
2002-04-25 00:00
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