Executive Summary
This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | sudo buffer overflow |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-128 | First vendor Publication | 2002-04-26 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2002-04-26 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.2 | Attack Range | Local |
| Cvss Impact Score | 10 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 3.9 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| fc found a buffer overflow in the variable expansion code used by sudo for its prompt. Since sudo is necessarily installed suid root a local user can use this to gain root access. This has been fixed in version 1.6.2-2.2 and we recommend that you upgrade your sudo package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-128 |
CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification
| Id | Name |
|---|---|
| CAPEC-47 | Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion |
| CAPEC-100 | Overflow Buffers |
| CAPEC-123 | Buffer Attacks |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-131 | Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| Os | 1 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 128-1 (sudo) File : nvt/deb_128_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 5344 | sudo -p Option Local Overflow |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-128.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-07-31 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2002-028.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:26:35 |
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