Description
sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home/*/*/file.txt."
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707 ↗
- http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13 ↗
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/ ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html ↗