Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in initscripts of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in initscripts of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

CVE-2005-3629 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

initscripts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not properly handle certain environment variables when /sbin/service is executed, which allows local users with sudo permissions for /sbin/service to gain root privileges via unknown vectors.

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