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mksh: improper sanitation

Package(s):mksh CVE #(s):
Created:November 3, 2015 Updated:November 4, 2015
Description: From the Gentoo advisory:

Improper sanitation of environment import allows for appending of values to passed parameters.

An attacker who already had access to the environment could so append values to parameters passed through programs (including sudo(8) or setuid) to shell scripts, including indirectly, after those programs intended to sanitise the environment, e.g. invalidating the last $PATH component.

Alerts:
Gentoo 201511-01 mksh 2015-11-02

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