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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55768
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDKSA-2005:201 (sudo)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to sudo
announced via advisory MDKSA-2005:201.

Tavis Ormandy discovered that sudo does not perform sufficient
environment cleaning
in particular the SHELLOPTS and PS4 variables are
still passed to the program running as an alternate user which can
result in the execution of arbitrary commands as the alternate user
when a bash script is executed.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this problem.

Affected: 10.1, 10.2, 2006.0, Corporate 2.1, Corporate 3.0,
Multi Network Firewall 2.0


Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDKSA-2005:201

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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