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Sudo Python Environment Cleaning Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18358
Release Date: 2006-01-09
Last Update: 2006-01-20
Popularity: 12,572 views

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

Software:Sudo 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Tavis Ormandy 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 python script to gain access to an interactive python prompt via the "PYTHONINSPECT" environment variable.

The vulnerability is related to:
SA17318

Change Page:
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