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CVE-2005-3629
CVE-2005-3629 affects initscripts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. A bug in how environment variables are handled when /sbin/service is executed allows a local user with sudo access to /sbin/service to run commands with root privileges. Public advisories (RHSA-2006:0015, RHSA-2006:0016) and CentOS/...
security flaw
initscripts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not properly handle certain environment variables when /sbin/service is executed, which allows local users with sudo permissions for /sbin/service to gain root privileges via unknown vectors...
[slackware-security] sudo
New sudo packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-0151 Here are the details from the Slackware...
Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : sudo (SSA:2006-045-08)
New sudo packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2006-045-08. The text...
CVE-2006-0576
Untrusted search path vulnerability in opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.1 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a modified PATH that references malicious 1 which or 2 dirname programs. NOTE: while opcontrol normally is not run setuid, a common configuration suggests accessing...
oprofile.txt
Hello all, I recently audited a box with a software called OProfile http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/. "OProfile is a system-wide profiler for Linux systems, capable of profiling all running code at low overhead. OProfile is released under the GNU GPL. It consists of a kernel driver and a daemon f...
CVE-2006-0576
Untrusted search path vulnerability in opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.1 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a modified PATH that references malicious 1 which or 2 dirname programs. NOTE: while opcontrol normally is not run setuid, a common configuration suggests accessing...
Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : sudo vulnerability (USN-235-1)
Charles Morris discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in sudo. On executing Perl scripts with sudo, various environment variables that affect Perl's library search path were not cleaned properly. If sudo is set up to grant limited sudo execution of Perl scripts to normal users, this coul...
Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : sudo vulnerability (USN-235-2)
USN-235-1 fixed a vulnerability in sudo's handling of environment variables. Tavis Ormandy noticed that sudo did not filter out the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, so that users with the limited privilege of calling a python script with sudo could still escalate their privileges. For referenc...
[SECURITY] [DSA 946-1] New sudo packages fix privilege escalation
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 946-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 20th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...
[SECURITY] [DSA 946-1] New sudo packages fix privilege escalation
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 946-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 20th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...
Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2005:234)
Charles Morris discovered a vulnerability in sudo versions prior to 1.6.8p12 where, when the perl taint flag is off, sudo does not clear the PERLLIB, PERL5LIB, and PERL5OPT environment variables, which could allow limited local users to cause a perl script to include and execute arbitrary library...
Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : sudo vulnerability (USN-213-1)
Tavis Ormandy discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in sudo. On executing shell scripts with sudo, the 'P4' and 'SHELLOPTS' environment variables were not cleaned properly. If sudo is set up to grant limited sudo privileges to normal users this could be exploited to run arbitrary comman...
Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : sudo vulnerability (USN-142-1)
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...
Ubuntu 4.10 : sudo vulnerability (USN-28-1)
Liam Helmer discovered an input validation flaw in sudo. When the standard shell 'bash' starts up, it searches the environment for variables with a value beginning with ''. For each of these variables a function with the same name is created, with the function body filled in from the environment...
DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0151
sudo 1.6.8 and other versions does not clear the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, which allows limited local users to gain privileges via a Python script, a variant of CVE-2005-4158...
CVE-2006-0151
sudo 1.6.8 and other versions does not clear the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, which allows limited local users to gain privileges via a Python script, a variant of CVE-2005-4158...
CVE-2006-0151
sudo 1.6.8 and other versions does not clear the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, which allows limited local users to gain privileges via a Python script, a variant of CVE-2005-4158...
CVE-2006-0151
sudo 1.6.8 and other versions does not clear the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, which allows limited local users to gain privileges via a Python script, a variant of CVE-2005-4158...
