File Existence Disclosure Vulnerability in Sudo 1.5

CVE-1999-1496 · LOW Severity

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

Sudo 1.5 in Debian Linux 2.1 and Red Hat 6.0 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files by attempting to execute the target filename as a program, which generates a different error message when the file does not exist.

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