Debian Security Advisory
DSA-128-1 sudo -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 26 Apr 2002
- Affected Packages:
- sudo
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 4593.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0184. - More information:
-
fc found a buffer overflow in the variable expansion code used by sudo for its prompt. Since sudo is necessarily installed suid root a local user can use this to gain root access.
This has been fixed in version 1.6.2-2.2 for the stable distribution of Debian and version 1.6.6-1 for the testing/unstable distribution. We recommend that you upgrade your sudo package immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sudo_1.6.2p2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.2.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.2_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.2_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.2_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/sudo_1.6.2p2-2.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.