Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2005:103)

A race condition was discovered in sudo by Charles Morris. This could lead to the escalation of privileges if /etc/sudoers allowed a user to execute selected programs that were then followed by another line containing the pseudo-command 'ALL'. By creating symbolic links at a certain time, that us...

sudo: Arbitrary command execution

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description The sudoers file is used to define the actions sudo users are permitted to perform. Charles Morris discovered that a specific layout of the sudoers file could cause the results of a...

Fedora Core 3 : sudo-1.6.7p5-30.3 (2005-472)

Tue Jun 21 2005 Karel Zak 1.6.7p5-30.3 - fix 161116 - CVE-2005-1993 sudo trusted user arbitrary command execution Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it...

sudo

New Sudo packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue. A race condition could allow a user with Sudo privileges to run arbitrary commands. For more details, see: http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/alerts/pathrace.html Here are the details from th...

USN-142-1: sudo vulnerability

Charles Morris discovered a race condition in sudo which could lead to privilege escalation. If /etc/sudoers allowed a user the execution of selected programs, and this was followed by another line containing the pseudo-command "ALL", that user could execute arbitrary commands with sudo by creati...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 6 package sudo version 1:1.6.7p5-alt5

June 21, 2005 Dmitry V. Levin 1:1.6.7p5-alt5 - Backported upstream fix so a sudoers entry with sudo ALL no longer overwrites the value of safecmnd CAN-2005-1993...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 8 package sudo version 1:1.6.7p5-alt5

June 21, 2005 Dmitry V. Levin 1:1.6.7p5-alt5 - Backported upstream fix so a sudoers entry with sudo ALL no longer overwrites the value of safecmnd CAN-2005-1993...

CVE-2005-1993

Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-1993

Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-1993

Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-1993

CVE-2005-1993 describes a local privilege-escalation race in sudo’s pathname validation. In affected versions (sudo 1.3.1–1.6.8p8), a user with sudo privileges could trigger a symlink race when an ALL entry appears after the user’s sudoers entry, potentially executing commands as root. Public adv...

CVE-2005-1993

Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-1993

Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack...

Sudo version 1.6.8p9 now available, fixes security issue.

Sudo version 1.6.8, patchlevel 9 is now available, which fixes a race condition in Sudo's pathname validation. This is a security issue. Summary: A race condition in Sudo's command pathname handling prior to Sudo version 1.6.8p9 that could allow a user with Sudo privileges to run arbitrary...

sudo -- local race condition vulnerability

Todd C. Miller reports: A race condition in Sudo's command pathname handling prior to Sudo version 1.6.8p9 that could allow a user with Sudo privileges to run arbitrary commands. Exploitation of the bug requires that the user be allowed to run one or more commands via Sudo and be able to create...

CVE-2005-1831

Sudo 1.6.8p7 on SuSE Linux 9.3, and possibly other Linux distributions, allows local users to gain privileges by using sudo to call su, then entering a blank password and hitting CTRL-C. NOTE: SuSE and multiple third-party researchers have not been able to replicate this issue, stating "Sudo...

CVE-2005-1831

Sudo 1.6.8p7 on SuSE Linux 9.3, and possibly other Linux distributions, allows local users to gain privileges by using sudo to call su, then entering a blank password and hitting CTRL-C. NOTE: SuSE and multiple third-party researchers have not been able to replicate this issue, stating "Sudo...

CVE-2005-1831

CVE-2005-1831 refers to Sudo 1.6.8p7 on SuSE Linux 9.3 (and possibly other distros) where local users could gain privileges by using sudo to run su, then entering a blank password and pressing CTRL-C. Several researchers could not reproduce the issue, noting that Sudo catches SIGINT and returns a...

CVE-2005-1831

Sudo 1.6.8p7 on SuSE Linux 9.3, and possibly other Linux distributions, allows local users to gain privileges by using sudo to call su, then entering a blank password and hitting CTRL-C. NOTE: SuSE and multiple third-party researchers have not been able to replicate this issue, stating "Sudo...

CVE-2005-1831

Sudo 1.6.8p7 on SuSE Linux 9.3, and possibly other Linux distributions, allows local users to gain privileges by using sudo to call su, then entering a blank password and hitting CTRL-C. NOTE: SuSE and multiple third-party researchers have not been able to replicate this issue, stating "Sudo...