Bug 161116

Summary: CAN-2005-1993 sudo trusted user arbitrary command execution
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: sudoAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 4.0Keywords: Security
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Whiteboard: public=20050620,impact=moderate,source=vendorsec,reported=20050620
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-535 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Patch which fixes this issue. none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-06-20 16:50:00 UTC 
A race condition in Sudo's command pathname handling prior to
Sudo version 1.6.8p9 that could allow a user with Sudo privileges
to run arbitrary commands.

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/402741/30/0/threaded
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-06-20 16:50:49 UTC 
This issue also affects RHEL2.1 and RHEL3
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-06-20 18:20:35 UTC 
Created attachment 115708 [details]
Patch which fixes this issue.
Comment 7 Josh Bressers 2005-06-29 16:20:05 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-535.html