===========================================================
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-28-1 November 17, 2004
sudo vulnerability
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/bash_functions.html
===========================================================
A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
The following packages are affected:
sudo
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 1.6.7p5-1ubuntu4.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is
sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Liam Helmer discovered an input validation flaw in sudo. When the
standard shell "bash" starts up, it searches the environment for
variables with a value beginning with "()". For each of these
variables a function with the same name is created, with the function
body filled in from the environment variable's value.
A malicious user with sudo access to a shell script that uses bash can
use this feature to substitute arbitrary commands for any
non-fully-qualified programs called from the script. Therefore this
flaw can lead to privilege escalation.
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.7p5-1ubuntu4.1.diff.gz
Size/MD5: 19512 8732535adda58d8421cc40dfa0d4d277
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.7p5-1ubuntu4.1.dsc
Size/MD5: 585 cad376439bd2828752b2ea6aca5ae8ca
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.7p5.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 349785 55d503e5c35bf1ea83d38244e0242aaf
amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.7p5-1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5: 155924 22253ea7307fdbab6c01e357a4dba9af
i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.7p5-1ubuntu4.1_i386.deb
Size/MD5: 145358 4492baa2b88e8707efac77943058cc07
powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.7p5-1ubuntu4.1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5: 152864 18fa79642ba2ad55923a0a5f8cb771ba
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature