CVE-2005-1993 Information

Description

Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8 when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack.

Reference

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847 http://secunia.com/advisories/15744 http://secunia.com/advisories/17813 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-735 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html http://www.osvdb.org/17396 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-535.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/402741 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425974/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13993 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15647 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/path_race.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0821 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2659 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161116 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21080 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11341 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1242