Security Advisory

CVE-2002-0184

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2003-04-02 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 02:42:28
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Sudo before 1.6.6 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow that may allow local users to gain root privileges via special characters in the -p (prompt) argument, which are not properly expanded.