Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sudo (opens in a new tab)
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- published17 Nov 2015
- disclosed17 Nov 2015
Introduced: 17 Nov 2015
CVE-2015-5602 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sudo package and not the sudo package as distributed by Ubuntu.
sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home///file.txt."
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-5602
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5602
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
- http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707
- http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710
- https://github.com/t0kx/privesc-CVE-2015-5602