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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-7971 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:50:47.551Z

Reserved: 2016-08-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-7091

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-22T21:59:00.113

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-7091

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-05-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-7091 - Bugzilla

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