Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-3067 - Credentials Management vulnerability in Suse Opensuse 10.3
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
sudo in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 does not clear the stdin buffer when password entry times out, which might allow local users to obtain a password by reading stdin from the parent process after a sudo child process exits.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2008-07-08 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of sudo as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5. |