Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55756
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-213-1 (sudo)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to sudo announced via advisory USN-213-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) The following packages are affected: sudo Tavis Ormandy discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in sudo. On executing shell scripts with sudo, the P4 and SHELLOPTS environment variables were not cleaned properly. If sudo is set up to grant limited sudo privileges to normal users this could be exploited to run arbitrary commands as the target user. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1.6.7p5-1ubuntu4.3 (for Ubuntu 4.10), 1.6.8p5-1ubuntu2.2 (for Ubuntu 5.04), or 1.6.8p9-2ubuntu2.1 (for Ubuntu 5.10). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-213-1 Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 4.6
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 15191 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2959 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15191 Cert/CC Advisory: TA07-072A http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html Debian Security Information: DSA-870 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-870 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:201 http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.002-sudo.html http://secunia.com/advisories/17318 http://secunia.com/advisories/17322 http://secunia.com/advisories/17345 http://secunia.com/advisories/17390 http://secunia.com/advisories/17666 http://secunia.com/advisories/18549 http://secunia.com/advisories/24479 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:025 (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9643 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:002 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/213-1/ http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930
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