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Debian 3.0: DSA 596-2 Moderate: Sudo Input Sanitization Flaw

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2004
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The Debian advisory DSA 596-2 highlights a vulnerability in sudo that may be exploited locally; it is advised to apply the necessary updates.
Liam Helmer noticed that sudo, a program that provides limited super user privileges to specific users, does not clean the environment sufficiently

Summary

This update removes the debug output which was left over in the update
from DSA 596-1. For completeness below is the original advisory text:

Liam Helmer noticed that sudo, a program that provides limited
super user privileges to specific users, does not clean the
environment sufficiently. Bash functions and the CDPATH variable
are still passed through to the program running as privileged user,
leaving possibilities to overload system routines. These
vulnerabilities can only be exploited by users who have been
granted limited super user privileges.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.6.6-1.3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.6.8p3.

We recommend that you upgrade your sudo package.

Upgrade Instructions
--------------------

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
source...

Read the Full Advisory

Package: sudo
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1051

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