Vulnerability CVE-2008-1845


Published: 2008-04-16   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The Korn shell (aka mksh) before R33d on MirOS (aka MirBSD) does not flush the tty's I/O when invoking mksh in a new terminal, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a virtual terminal and entering command sequences, which might later be executed in opportunistic circumstances by a different user who launches mksh and specifies that terminal with the -T option.

Type:

CWE-DesignError

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Mirbsd -> Miros 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41794
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28768
http://www.osvdb.org/44365
http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm#clog
http://secunia.com/advisories/29803

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