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Slackware 13.x SSA:2014-064-01 Critical: Sudo Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey March 6, 2014
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Important security patch for sudo software in Slackware versions 13.0, 13.1, and 13.37 to fix a vulnerability that allows privilege escalation.
New sudo packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, and 13.37 to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/sudo-1.7.10p8-i486-1_slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue where if the env_reset option is disabled in the sudoers file, a malicious user with sudo permissions may be able to run arbitrary commands with elevated privileges by manipulating the environment of a command the user is legitimately allowed to run. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0106 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical privilege escalation security fix slackware sudo

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.0 package: 88d8b8a0c6815276e62dbea65f79826f sudo-1.7.10p8-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 5adb3f0aca3ffbfbc0bb016caf4fc941 sudo-1.7.10p8-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: eabca3bc1791d8938b89692ddf70469f sudo-1.7.10p8-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 5d409a3bd4477bc4220fbc034a9870e6 sudo-1.7.10p8-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 2639bf065078bf1d68ebdd7357b9e65a sudo-1.7.10p8-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 9c263bcd7211ad77c54155fd159b09ec sudo-1.7.10p8-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical privilege escalation security fix slackware sudo

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg sudo-1.7.10p8-i486-1_slack13.37.txz

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