Debian 7 DSA-2642-1 Moderate: Sudo Remote Authentication Issues
debian
March 9, 2013
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo, a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users
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Summary
CVE-2013-1775
Marco Schoepl discovered an authentication bypass when the clock is
set to the UNIX epoch [00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970].
CVE-2013-1776
Ryan Castellucci and James Ogden discovered aspects of an issue that
would allow session id hijacking from another authorized tty.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.4.
For the testing (wheezy) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems
have been fixed in version 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1.
We recommend that you upgrade your sudo packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
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CVE ID: CVE-2013-1775 CVE-2013-1776
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