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Gentoo: GLSA-202003-12 High Severity: Sudo Privilege Escalation Threats

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Calendar Grey March 14, 2020
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo Linux Security Notice: Critical sudo Vulnerabilities Affecting User Privileges Identified.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in sudo, the worst of which could result in privilege escalation.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity privilege escalation sudo Gentoo Linux multiple threats

Resolution

All sudo users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/sudo-1.8.31"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2019-14287 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14287 [ 2 ] CVE-2019-18634 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18634

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-12
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: sudo: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: March 14, 2020
Bugs: #697462, #707574
ID: 202003-12

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity privilege escalation sudo Gentoo Linux multiple threats

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in sudo, the worst of which could result in privilege escalation.

Background

sudo (su "do") allows a system administrator to delegate authority to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while providing an audit trail of the commands and their arguments.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-admin/sudo < 1.8.31 >= 1.8.31

Impact

===== A local attacker could expose or corrupt memory information, inject code to be run as a root user or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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