Security Advisory

CVE-2016-7091

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-22 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:50:47
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

sudo: It was discovered that the default sudo configuration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and possibly other Linux implementations preserves the value of INPUTRC which could lead to information disclosure. A local user with sudo access to a restricted program that uses readline could use this flaw to read content from specially formatted files with elevated privileges provided by sudo.