CVE-2005-2959

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.

Find out more about CVE-2005-2959 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

We do not consider this to be a security issue:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139478#c1

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