Conectiva Linux Security Announcement: sudo

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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 
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PACKAGE   : sudo
SUMMARY   : Local vulnerability allows an attacker to obtain root privileges
DATE      : 2002-01-15 17:21:00
ID        : CLA-2002:451
RELEVANT
RELEASES  : 5.0, prg graficos, ecommerce, 5.1, 6.0, 7.0

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DESCRIPTION
 "sudo" is an utility designed to be used by administrators who wish
 to delegate administrative privileges to regular users for very
 specific commands, and without giving away the root password.
 
 Sebastian Krahmer from SuSe found a vulnerability in the sudo package
 which could be used by a local attacker to obtain root privileges.
 Versions prior to and including 1.6.3p7 remove a few potentially
 dangerous environment variables prior to executing a command as root,
 but other variables could be abused and used to obtain root
 privileges. One such scenario is when an unauthorized users attempts
 to execute sudo. This will cause sudo to execute a mailer to send a
 notice to the administrator, which is executed as root and with some
 environment variables specified by the attacker. This has been
 succesfully exploited with the postfix mailer in a default
 configuration, but other mailers and programs could be affected too.
 
 The author has released version 1.6.4 to address this problem. This
 version runs the mail program with a clean environment.


SOLUTION
 It is recommended that all sudo users apply the update.
 
 
 REFERENCES
 1. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/250168
 2.
 http://www.sudo.ws/pipermail/sudo-announce/2002-January/000015.html


DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U50_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/sudo-doc-1.6.4p1-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U51_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U51_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/sudo-doc-1.6.4p1-1U51_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U60_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U60_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/sudo-doc-1.6.4p1-1U60_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U70_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/sudo-doc-1.6.4p1-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U50_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/sudo-doc-1.6.4p1-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U50_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/sudo-1.6.4p1-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/sudo-doc-1.6.4p1-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm


ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
 Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to perform 
 upgrades of RPM packages:
 - add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list if it is not there yet
   (you may also use linuxconf to do this):

 rpm [cncbr] ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br 6.0/conectiva updates

(replace 6.0 with the correct version number if you are not running CL6.0)

 - run:                 apt-get update
 - after that, execute: apt-get upgrade

 Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples 
 can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en


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