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TITLE:
Sudo Privilege Escalation Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33753

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33753/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Sudo 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/3929/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in sudo, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the application not properly
handling group specifications defined in the sudoers file. This can
be exploited to e.g. gain root access without password
authentication.

Successful exploitation requires that the attacker is member of a
group he is allowed to sudo into without entering a password.

The security issue is reported in versions 1.6.9p17 through 1.6.9p19.
Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.6.9p20.
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/download.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Harald Koenig

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gratisoft.us/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=327

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