Race Condition Affecting sudo package, versions <1.8.19p1-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-SUDO-406955
  • published5 Jun 2017
  • disclosed5 Jun 2017

Introduced: 5 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-1000367  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 sudo to version 1.8.19p1-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sudo package and not the sudo package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Todd Miller's sudo version 1.8.20 and earlier is vulnerable to an input validation (embedded spaces) in the get_process_ttyname() function resulting in information disclosure and command execution.