Title : Debian Security Update Fixes Sudo Command Execution Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0280 CVE ID : CVE-2005-4158 - CVE-2006-0151
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-01-20
Technical Description
Debian has released updated packages to address multiple vulnerabilities identified in Sudo. These flaws are due to an error when handling the "PERLLIB", "PERL5LIB", "PYTHONINSPECT" and "PERL5OPT" environment variables, which could be exploited by malicious users with sudo access to perl scripts to execute arbitrary perl code on systems where the perl "tainting" option is disabled. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2386
Debian GNU/Linux old-stable (woody) - Upgrade to version 1.6.6-1.5
Debian GNU/Linux stable (sarge) - Upgrade to version 1.6.8p7-1.3
Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) - Upgrade to version 1.6.8p12-1 References
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