Vulnerability CVE-2008-3067
Published: 2008-07-07   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-255

 (Credentials Management)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
SUSE -> Opensuse 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43618
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html
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