{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1845","details":"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.","modified":"2026-09-20T06:47:35.866186256Z","published":"2008-04-16T17:05:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2008-1845"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-1845"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mksh","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/mksh?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"33.4-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"low"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1845.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mksh","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/mksh?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"33.4-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"low"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1845.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mksh","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/mksh?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"33.4-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"low"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1845.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}