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DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9680

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 fil...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 sudo

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.8.12-1"}]}]

Debian:13 sudo

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.8.12-1"}]}]

Debian:14 sudo

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.8.12-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org