Published: 20/06/2005 Updated: 19/10/2018

CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.7 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 1.9

VMScore: 329

Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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todd miller sudo 1.5.8
todd miller sudo 1.5.9
todd miller sudo 1.6.3_p3
todd miller sudo 1.6.3_p4
todd miller sudo 1.6.5
todd miller sudo 1.6.5_p1
todd miller sudo 1.6.8_p8
todd miller sudo 1.3.1
todd miller sudo 1.6.2
todd miller sudo 1.6.3
todd miller sudo 1.6.3_p7
todd miller sudo 1.6.4
todd miller sudo 1.6.7_p5
todd miller sudo 1.6.8
todd miller sudo 1.5.6
todd miller sudo 1.5.7
todd miller sudo 1.6.3_p1
todd miller sudo 1.6.3_p2
todd miller sudo 1.6.4_p1
todd miller sudo 1.6.4_p2
todd miller sudo 1.6.8_p1
todd miller sudo 1.6.8_p7
todd miller sudo 1.6
todd miller sudo 1.6.1
todd miller sudo 1.6.3_p5
todd miller sudo 1.6.3_p6
todd miller sudo 1.6.5_p2
todd miller sudo 1.6.6
todd miller sudo 1.6.7

Synopsis sudo security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An updated sudo package is available that fixes a race condition in sudo'spathname validationThis update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team Description The sud ...

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 creating symbolic links at a certain time ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/402741 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161116 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13993 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/path_race.html http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-735 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-535.html http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15647 http://secunia.com/advisories/15744 http://secunia.com/advisories/17813 http://www.osvdb.org/17396 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0821 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2659 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21080 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1242 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11341 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425974/100/0/threaded https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:535 https://usn.ubuntu.com/142-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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