Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-928-1)

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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : sudo vulnerability (USN-928-1)

Valerio Costamagna discovered that sudo did not properly validate the path for the 'sudoedit' pseudo-command when the PATH contained only a dot '.'. If securepath and ignoredot were disabled, a local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root if sudo was configured to allow the...