| Revision Date: | 2014-07-07 | Version: | 14 |
| Title: | RHSA-2014:0266: sudo security update (Moderate) |
| Description: | The sudo (superuser do) utility allows system administrators to givecertain users the ability to run commands as root.A flaw was found in the way sudo handled its blacklist of environmentvariables. When the "env_reset" option was disabled, a user permitted torun certain commands via sudo could use this flaw to run such a commandwith one of the blacklisted environment variables set, allowing them to runan arbitrary command with the target user's privileges. (CVE-2014-0106)Note: This issue does not affect the default configuration of the sudopackage as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.Red Hat would like to thank Todd C. Miller for reporting this issue.Upstream acknowledges Sebastien Macke as the original reporter.All sudo users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, whichcontains a backported patch to correct this issue. |
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | ACCEPTED | Reference(s): | CESA-2014:0266
CVE-2014-0106
RHSA-2014:0266-00
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| Platform(s): | CentOS Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
| Product(s): | sudo
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| Definition Synopsis |
| Redhat 5 or Centos 5 release The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
OR The operating system installed on the system is CentOS Linux 5.x
AND sudo is earlier than 0:1.7.2p1-29.el5_10
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