Description
A certain Fedora patch for parse.c in sudo before 1.7.4p5-1.fc14 on Fedora 14 does not properly interpret a system group (aka %group) in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-0034 regression.
References
- MDVSA-2011:018 vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2011-0470 vendor-advisory
- ADV-2011-0199 vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668843
- sudo-parse-privilege-escalation(64965) vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2011-0455 vendor-advisory
- ADV-2011-0195 vdb-entry
- 42968 third-party-advisory