ubuntu · CVE-2016-7091

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-12-22 21:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:09:38 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7091 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (sudo), 4 status rows across 4 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1.

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.

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