Detections
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CVE-2014-9680
low
Description
sudo before 1.8.12 does not ensure that the TZ environment variable is associated with a zoneinfo file, which allows local users to open arbitrary files for read access (but not view file contents) by running a program within an sudo session, as demonstrated by interfering with terminal output, discarding kernel-log messages, or repositioning tape drives.
References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-02
http://www.sudo.ws/alerts/tz.html