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1.9 KiB
42 lines
1.9 KiB
1 year ago
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="202305-12">
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<title>sudo: Root Privilege Escalation</title>
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<synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in sudo which could result in root privilege escalation.</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">sudo</product>
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<announced>2023-05-03</announced>
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<revised count="1">2023-05-03</revised>
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<bug>891335</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="app-admin/sudo" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">1.9.12_p2</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">1.9.12_p2</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users.</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>The sudoedit (aka -e) feature mishandles extra arguments passed in the user-provided environment variables (SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL, and EDITOR), allowing a local attacker to append arbitrary entries to the list of files to process.</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="high">
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<p>The improper processing of user's environment variables could lead to the editing of arbitrary files as root, potentially leading to root privilege escalation.</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All sudo users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/sudo-1.9.12_p2"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22809">CVE-2023-22809</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2023-05-03T09:53:34.200622Z">ajak</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2023-05-03T09:53:34.205155Z">sam</metadata>
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</glsa>
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