CVE-2009-0034 Information

Description

parse.c in sudo 1.6.9p17 through 1.6.9p19 does not properly interpret a system group (aka group) in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command.

Reference

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000060.html [Security-announce] 20090710 VMSA-2009-0009 ESX Service Console updates for udev sudo and curl http://osvdb.org/51736 http://secunia.com/advisories/33753 http://secunia.com/advisories/33840 http://secunia.com/advisories/33885 http://secunia.com/advisories/35766 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0021 http://www.gratisoft.us/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=327 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:033 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0267.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500546/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504849/100/0/threaded 20090711 VMSA-2009-0009 ESX Service Console updates for udev sudo and curl http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33517 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021688 http://www.sudo.ws/cgi-bin/cvsweb/sudo/parse.c.diff?r1=1.160.2.21&r2=1.160.2.22&f=h http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0009.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1865 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468923 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2954 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10856 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6462