Debian Security Advisory

DSA-101-1 sudo -- Local root exploit

Date Reported:

14 Jan 2002

Affected Packages:

sudo

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0043.

More information:

Sebastian Krahmer from SuSE found a vulnerability in sudo which could easily lead into a local root exploit.

This problem has been fixed in upstream version 1.6.4 as well as in version 1.6.2p2-2.1 for the stable release of Debian GNU/Linux.

We recommend that you upgrade your sudo packages immediately.

Fixed in:

Source:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sudo_1.6.2p2.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.1_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.1_arm.deb
Intel ia32:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.1_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.1_m68k.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.1_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.