6.2 - USN-956-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	sudo vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-956-1	First vendor Publication	2010-06-30
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2010-06-30
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 : (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score	6.2	Attack Range	Local
Cvss Impact Score	10	Attack Complexity	High
Cvss Expoit Score	1.9	Authentication	None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

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

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
sudo 1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6.3
sudo-ldap 1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6.3

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
sudo 1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.8
sudo-ldap 1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.8

Ubuntu 9.04:
sudo 1.6.9p17-1ubuntu3.3
sudo-ldap 1.6.9p17-1ubuntu3.3

Ubuntu 9.10:
sudo 1.7.0-1ubuntu2.4
sudo-ldap 1.7.0-1ubuntu2.4

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

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

Details follow:

Evan Broder and Anders Kaseorg discovered that sudo did not properly sanitize its environment when configured to use secure_path (the default in Ubuntu). A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root if sudo was configured to allow the attacker to use a program that interpreted the PATH environment variable.