metadata/glsa/glsa-200902-01.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200902-01">
  <title>sudo: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability in sudo may allow for privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">sudo</product>
  <announced>February 06, 2009</announced>
  <revised>February 06, 2009: 01</revised>
  <bug>256633</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/sudo" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.7.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run
    commands as other users.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Harald Koenig discovered that sudo incorrectly handles group
    specifications in Runas_Alias (and related) entries when a group is
    specified in the list (using %group syntax, to allow a user to run
    commands as any member of that group) and the user is already a member
    of that group.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A local attacker could possibly run commands as an arbitrary system
    user (including root).
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All sudo users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-admin/sudo-1.7.0&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0034">CVE-2009-0034</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:59:48 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:20:12 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:19:55 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
</glsa>