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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2642-1 (sudo - several issues)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.9

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo, a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2013-1775 Marco Schoepl discovered an authentication bypass when the clock is set to the UNIX epoch [00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970]. CVE-2013-1776 Ryan Castellucci and James Ogden discovered aspects of an issue that would allow session id hijacking from another authorized tty.

Affected Software

Affected Software

sudo on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.4. For the testing (wheezy) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1. We recommend that you upgrade your sudo packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)