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OpenPKG Security Advisory The OpenPKG Project
http://www.openpkg.org/security.html http://www.openpkg.org
openpkg-security@openpkg.org openpkg@openpkg.org
OpenPKG-SA-2006.002 18-Feb-2006
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Package: sudo
Vulnerability: privilege escalation
OpenPKG Specific: no

Affected Releases: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
OpenPKG CURRENT <= sudo-1.6.8p11-20051107 >= sudo-1.6.8p12-20051109
OpenPKG 2.5 <= sudo-1.6.8p9-2.5.1 >= sudo-1.6.8p9-2.5.2
OpenPKG 2.4 <= sudo-1.6.8p8-2.4.1 >= sudo-1.6.8p8-2.4.2
OpenPKG 2.3 <= sudo-1.6.8p7-2.3.1 >= sudo-1.6.8p7-2.3.2

Description:
According to a vendor bug report [0], an incomplete blacklist
vulnerability exists in the Sudo [1] utility which can lead to a
privilege escalation. The vulnerability exists in Sudo 1.6.8 and
earlier and allows local users to gain privileges via the "SHELLOPTS"
and "PS4" environment variables before executing a shell script on
behalf of another user. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
project assigned the id CAN-2005-2959 [2] to the problem.
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References:
[0] http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182
[1] http://www.sudo.ws/
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename...=CAN-2005-2959
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