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CVE-2008-1845

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2008-04-16 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Mirbsd Miros

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References