Security
Security
A vulnerability in sudo may allow for privilege escalation.
| Package | app-admin/sudo on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 1.7.0 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 1.7.0 |
sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users.
Harald Koenig discovered that sudo incorrectly handles group specifications in Runas_Alias (and related) entries when a group is specified in the list (using %group syntax, to allow a user to run commands as any member of that group) and the user is already a member of that group.
A local attacker could possibly run commands as an arbitrary system user (including root).
There is no known workaround at this time.
All sudo users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/sudo-1.7.0"
Release date
February 06, 2009
Latest revision
February 06, 2009: 01
Severity
high
Exploitable
local
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