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| <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> |
| <glsa id="201207-01"> |
| <title>sudo: Privilege escalation</title> |
| <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in sudo which may allow local users |
| to gain escalated privileges. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">sudo</product> |
| <announced>July 09, 2012</announced> |
| <revised>July 09, 2012: 1</revised> |
| <bug>416281</bug> |
| <access>local</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="app-admin/sudo" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">1.8.5_p1</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.5_p1</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p>sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run |
| commands as other users. Access to commands may also be granted on a |
| range to hosts. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p>An error in sudo may allow unintended IPv4 hosts to be granted access to |
| commands. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="high"> |
| <p>A local attacker could gain escalated privileges.</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 ">=app-admin/sudo-1.8.5_p1" |
| </code> |
| |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2337">CVE-2012-2337</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata timestamp="Sat, 26 May 2012 19:07:01 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata> |
| <metadata timestamp="Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:09:16 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata> |
| </glsa> |