Bug 567622 (CVE-2010-0427) - CVE-2010-0427 sudo: Fails to reset group permissions if runas_default set
Summary: CVE-2010-0427 sudo: Fails to reset group permissions if runas_default set
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-0427
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL: http://www.gratisoft.us/bugzilla/show...
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 497873 Engineering567689
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-02-23 13:30 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-11-12 20:04 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 497873
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-03-03 14:42:54 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2010:0122 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: sudo security update 2010-02-26 11:06:06 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-02-23 13:30:47 UTC 
Sudo failed to properly reset group permissions, when
"runas_default" option was used. If a local, unprivileged
user was authorized by sudoers file to perform their
sudo commands under default user account, it could lead
to privilege escalation.

Upstream bug report:
  http://www.gratisoft.us/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=349

Upstream patch:
  http://www.gratisoft.us/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=255
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-02-23 16:17:53 UTC 
This is CVE-2010-0427.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-02-26 11:06:14 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0122 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0122.html
Comment 8 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-02-26 16:36:45 UTC 
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the sudo package,
as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

This issue did NOT affect the current versions of the sudo package,
as shipped with Fedora releases of 11 and 12.
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