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Scientific Linux 6 & 7 SLSA-2017-1382-1 High: Sudo Privilege Escalation

Calendar May 30, 2017 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory sudo local user Important SL6 SL7 escalate privileges
A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root. (CVE-2017-1000367) SL6 x86_64 sudo-1.8.6p3-28.el6_9.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-28.el6_9.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-28.el6_9.i686.rpm sudo- [More...] 
Synopsis:          Important: sudo security update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2017:1382-1
Issue Date:        2017-05-30
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2017-1000367
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Security Fix(es):

* A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process
status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to
execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges
to root. (CVE-2017-1000367)
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SL6
  x86_64
    sudo-1.8.6p3-28.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-28.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-28.el6_9.i686.rpm
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-28.el6_9.i686.rpm
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-28.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
  i386
    sudo-1.8.6p3-28.el6_9.i686.rpm
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-28.el6_9.i686.rpm
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-28.el6_9.i686.rpm
SL7
  x86_64
    sudo-1.8.6p7-22.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p7-22.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p7-22.el7_3.i686.rpm
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p7-22.el7_3.i686.rpm
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p7-22.el7_3.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team