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<glsa id="201006-09">
  <title>sudo: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>
    A flaw in sudo's -e option may allow local attackers to execute arbitrary
    commands.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">sudo</product>
  <announced>June 01, 2010</announced>
  <revised>June 01, 2010: 01</revised>
  <bug>321697</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/sudo" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.7.2_p6</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.2_p6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run
    commands as other users.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The command matching functionality does not properly handle when a file
    in the current working directory has the same name as a pseudo-command
    in the sudoers file and the PATH contains an entry for ".".
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A local attacker with the permission to run sudoedit could, under
    certain circumstances, execute arbitrary commands as whichever user he
    has permission to run sudoedit as, typically root.
    </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 &quot;&gt;=app-admin/sudo-1.7.2_p6&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1163">CVE-2010-1163</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 29 May 2010 20:27:33 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 30 May 2010 14:58:46 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 30 May 2010 18:08:55 +0000">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
</glsa>