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.
Published: 2008-04-16
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-1845 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:40:59.416Z

Reserved: 2008-04-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-1845

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-04-16T17:05:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-1845

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-04-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-1845 - Bugzilla

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