CVE-2012-0809 Information

Description

Format string vulnerability in the sudo_debug function in Sudo 1.8.0 through 1.8.3p1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string sequences in the program name for sudo.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2012-01/0591.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2012-01/att-0591/advisory_sudo.txt http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-06.xml http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudo_debug.html