CVE-2008-1845 | BDVDB-2026-30271 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.osvdb.org/44365
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28768
http://secunia.com/advisories/29803
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41794
http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm#clog

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12008-04-16Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-07Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.