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openSUSE: 2019:2316-1 Important: sudo Root Access Issue

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Debian Security Advisory concerning sudo addresses a critical vulnerability that can grant root privileges irrespective of user permissions.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for sudo fixes the following issue:

- CVE-2019-14287: Fixed an issue where a user with sudo privileges that

allowed them to run commands with an arbitrary uid, could run commands

as root, despite being forbidden to do so in sudoers (bsc#1153674).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2316=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

sudo-1.8.22-lp151.5.3.1

sudo-debuginfo-1.8.22-lp151.5.3.1

sudo-debugsource-1.8.22-lp151.5.3.1

sudo-devel-1.8.22-lp151.5.3.1

sudo-test-1.8.22-lp151.5.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14287.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1153674

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2316-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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