N/A - USN-2533-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	Sudo vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-2533-1	First vendor Publication	2015-03-16
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2015-03-16
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

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 :
Cvss Base Score	Not Defined	Attack Range	Not Defined
Cvss Impact Score	Not Defined	Attack Complexity	Not Defined
Cvss Expoit Score	Not Defined	Authentication	Not Defined
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Sudo would allow unintended access to files.

Software Description: - sudo: Provide limited super user privileges to specific users

Details:

Jakub Wilk and Stephane Chazelas discovered that Sudo incorrectly handled the TZ environment variable. An attacker with Sudo access could possibly use this issue to open arbitrary files, bypassing intended permissions.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
sudo 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu2.1
sudo-ldap 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
sudo 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.1
sudo-ldap 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
sudo 1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3.7
sudo-ldap 1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3.7

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
sudo 1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.8
sudo-ldap 1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.8

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2533-1
CVE-2014-9680

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/1.8.9p5-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3.7
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.8