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Todd Miller Sudo local root exploit discovered by Slouching Mar 01 2010 11:08PM Kingcope (kcope2 googlemail com) (1 replies) Re: Todd Miller Sudo local root exploit discovered by Slouching Mar 03 2010 12:03PM andy hotmail com (2 replies) Re: Todd Miller Sudo local root exploit discovered by Slouching Mar 03 2010 01:18PM Kingcope (kcope2 googlemail com) |
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> Hi Kingcope,
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> ....but if the 'sudoers' file is correctly configured then you would not
> have the appropriate sudo permission to run the 'sudoedit' as root.
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> ....of course I'm assuming that the 'sudoers' file has not got the 'run
> any command' in it.
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> If the sudoers file used is even the default then I would think you would
> get some error on the lines of:
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> 'Sorry, user is not allowed to execute './sudoedit test' as root on this
> machine'.
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> Aren't you assuming the the sudoers file has a line in it that allows the
> user in question to run the /home/myhome/sudoedit as sudo???
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> Or am I missing something?
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> Andy
He's talking about a bug in sudo that allows him to run anything named
"sudoedit" if he can run commands that are in an alias named "sudoedit"
in /etc/sudoers.
Jann Horn
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