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EnGarde sudo Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA8790
Release Date: 2003-05-16
Popularity: 6,824 views

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

OS:EnGarde Secure Community 2.x
EnGarde Secure Professional 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Description:
Guardian Digital has issued an update to sudo, to fix an older vulnerability, allowing malicious users to escalate their privileges.

This vulnerability was fixed in April 2002, but a mistake made it reappear in later releases.

Affected releases are:
EnGarde Secure Community 2
EnGarde Secure Professional v1.2
EnGarde Secure Professional v1.5

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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