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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-1993
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2005-1993

Description: Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/21080 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA15744 Secunia Advisory: SA17813 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-535.html OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/oval/definitions/data/oval1242.html OSVDB 17396 FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/425974/100/0/threaded DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-735 CONFIRM http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/path_race.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/402741 BID 13993 15647 APPLE http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847

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