debian · CVE-2005-4890

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Priority: low Published: Updated: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:58:39 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2005-4890 low priority: Debian including 2 source packages (shadow, sudo), 10 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 10.

Description:

There is a possible tty hijacking in shadow 4.x before 4.1.5 and sudo 1.x before 1.7.4 via "su - user -c program". The user session can be escaped to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the input buffer to be read by the next process.

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