CVE-2015-5602 Information

Description

sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers as demonstrated by /home///file.txt.\

Reference

http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392 http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html1.8.15 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/