Info

Last Modified

14 days ago

Percent Complete

100%

Disclosure

Sep 16, 2004

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Sep 18, 2004

Solution

Unknown

Keywords

Sudoedit

Description

Sudo contains a flaw that may lead to an unauthorized information disclosure. The issue is triggered when a malicious user links an arbitrary file to sudo's temporary file and calls the -u option (sudoedit) resulting in read access to the linked file, which will disclose information normally unreadable resulting in a loss of confidentiality.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Information Disclosure
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.6.8p1 (patchlevel 1) or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

GratiSoft, Inc.

Sudoedit

1.6.8

References

Security Tracker: 1011342
Secunia Advisory ID: 12596
CVE ID: 2004-1689 (see also: NVD)
Milw0rm: 470
Exploit Database: 470
SCIP VulDB ID: 846
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-09/0198.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-09/0217.html
Vendor URL: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html
Keyword: Sudoedit

Credit

Reznic Valery -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 2.1
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-05-31 | Disagree?

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