CVE-2010-2956 Information

Description

Sudo 1.7.0 through 1.7.4p3 when a Runas group is configured does not properly handle use of the -u option in conjunction with the -g option which allows local users to gain privileges via a command line containing a -u root\ sequence.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047516.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/40508 http://secunia.com/advisories/41316 http://secunia.com/advisories/42787 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201009-03.xml http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0075 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:175 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0675.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514489/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515545/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43019 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024392 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/runas_group.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-983-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0001.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2312 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2318 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2320 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2358 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0025 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628628