CVE-2015-5602

Summary

sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home///file.txt."

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707
• http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html

References

• http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707
• http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html

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