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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Critical Sudo Path Vulnerability 956-1 Exploit Details

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2010
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
==========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-956-1 June 30,
Evan Broder and Anders Kaseorg discovered that sudo did not properly sanitize its environment when configured to use secure_path (the default in Ubuntu)

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security advisory critical risk arbitrary code execution local attack sudo exploit Ubuntu distribution path configuration

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security advisory critical risk arbitrary code execution local attack sudo exploit Ubuntu distribution path configuration

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