USN-3968-1 sudo vulnerabilities

Florian Weimer discovered that Sudo incorrectly handled the noexec restriction when used with certain applications. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass configured restrictions and execute arbitrary commands. CVE-2016-7076 It was discovered that Sudo did not properly parse the...

Privilege Escalation

sudo is vulnerable to privilege escalation. A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root...

sudo: Privilege escalation via improper get_process_ttyname() parsing (insufficient fix for CVE-2017-1000367)

It was found that the original fix for CVE-2017-1000367 was incomplete. A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root...