CVE-2008-3067

NameCVE-2008-3067
Descriptionsudo 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
sudo (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye1.9.5p2-3+deb11u1fixed
bookworm1.9.13p3-1+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie1.9.16p1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
sudosourceetch(not affected)
sudosource(unstable)1.6.9p12-1

Notes

[etch] - sudo <not-affected> (Issue was introduced in 1.6.9)

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