sudo: Privilege escalation — GLSA 201203-06

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo, allowing local attackers to possibly gain escalated privileges.

Package	app-admin/sudo on all architectures
Affected versions	< 1.8.3_p2
Unaffected versions	>= 1.8.3_p2 revision >= 1.7.4_p5

sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users.

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo:

When the sudoers file is configured with a Runas group, sudo does not prompt for a password when changing to the new group (CVE-2011-0010).
A format string vulnerability exists in the "sudo_debug()" function (CVE-2012-0809).

A local attacker could possibly gain the ability to run arbitrary commands with the privileges of other users or groups, including root.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All sudo users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/sudo-1.8.3_p2"

Release date
March 06, 2012

Latest revision
March 06, 2012: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
local

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