CVE-2008-1845

high

Description

The Korn shell (aka mksh) before R33d on MirOS (aka MirBSD) does not flush the tty's I/O when invoking mksh in a new terminal, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a virtual terminal and entering command sequences, which might later be executed in opportunistic circumstances by a different user who launches mksh and specifies that terminal with the -T option.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41794

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28768

http://www.osvdb.org/44365

http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm#clog

http://secunia.com/advisories/29803

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-04-16

Updated: 2017-08-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High