Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55068
Category:	Conectiva Local Security Checks
Title:	Conectiva Security Advisory CLA-2005:976 (sudo)
Summary:	Conectiva Security Advisory CLA-2005:976 (sudo)
Description:	The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory CLA-2005:976. Charles Morris discovered a race condition vulnerability in sudo which under certain circumstances allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges via a symlink attack. Solution: Upgrade your software. http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/alerts/path_race.html http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=000976 Risk factor : Medium
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 15647 BugTraq ID: 13993 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1993 Bugtraq: 20050620 Sudo version 1.6.8p9 now available, fixes security issue. (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/402741 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847 Debian Security Information: DSA-735 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-735 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/425974/100/0/threaded http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-535.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2005:036 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13993 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15647 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11341 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0821 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2659 http://www.osvdb.org/17396 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1242 http://secunia.com/advisories/15744 http://secunia.com/advisories/17813 XForce ISS Database: sudo-pathname-race-condition(21080) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/21080
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