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Sudo Environment Cleaning Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA13199
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Release Date:
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2004-11-15
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Last Update:
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2004-11-18
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Popularity:
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11,290 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Sudo 1.x
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Description:
Liam Helmer has reported a vulnerability in sudo, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the environment cleaning. This can be exploited by a user with sudo access to a bash script to run arbitrary commands by substituting them for any non-fully qualified programs called within the script.
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