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Sudo Perl Environment Cleaning Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA17534
Release Date: 2005-11-11
Last Update: 2005-12-12
Popularity: 10,859 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Sudo 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported 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 perl script to load and execute arbitrary library files via the "PERLLIB", "PERL5LIB" and the "PERL5OPT" environment variables.

The vulnerability is related to:
SA17318

Successful exploitation requires that the perl "tainting" option is not enabled.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 1.6.8p12.

Change Page:
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