CVE-2019-15900 (NVD)

2019-10-18

An issue was discovered in slicer69 doas before 6.2 on certain platforms other than OpenBSD. On platforms without strtonum(3), sscanf was used without checking for error cases. Instead, the uninitialized variable errstr was checked and in some cases returned success even if sscanf failed. The result was that, instead of reporting that the supplied username or group name did not exist, it would execute the command as root.

Products Doas
Type Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions (CWE-754)
Unchecked Return Value (CWE-252)
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
Use of Uninitialized Resource (CWE-908)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Patches https://github.com/slicer69/doas/commit/2f83222829448e5bc4c9391d607ec265a1e06531
Links https://github.com/slicer69/doas/compare/6.1p1...6.2