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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2013.1364 Low: sudo security and bug fix update 1 October 2013 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: sudo Publisher: Red Hat Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/Desktop 5 Impact/Access: Root Compromise -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2013-2776 CVE-2013-1776 CVE-2013-1775 Reference: ESB-2013.0355 Original Bulletin: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1353.html - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Low: sudo security and bug fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:1353-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1353.html Issue date: 2013-09-30 CVE Names: CVE-2013-1775 CVE-2013-1776 CVE-2013-2776 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An updated sudo package that fixes multiple security issues and several bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 3. Description: The sudo (superuser do) utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root. A flaw was found in the way sudo handled time stamp files. An attacker able to run code as a local user and with the ability to control the system clock could possibly gain additional privileges by running commands that the victim user was allowed to run via sudo, without knowing the victim's password. (CVE-2013-1775) It was found that sudo did not properly validate the controlling terminal device when the tty_tickets option was enabled in the /etc/sudoers file. An attacker able to run code as a local user could possibly gain additional privileges by running commands that the victim user was allowed to run via sudo, without knowing the victim's password. (CVE-2013-1776, CVE-2013-2776) This update also fixes the following bugs: * Due to a bug in the cycle detection algorithm of the visudo utility, visudo incorrectly evaluated certain alias definitions in the /etc/sudoers file as cycles. Consequently, a warning message about undefined aliases appeared. This bug has been fixed, /etc/sudoers is now parsed correctly by visudo and the warning message no longer appears. (BZ#849679) * Previously, the 'sudo -l' command did not parse the /etc/sudoers file correctly if it contained an Active Directory (AD) group. The file was parsed only up to the first AD group information and then the parsing failed with the following message: sudo: unable to cache group ADDOM\admingroup, already exists With this update, the underlying code has been modified and 'sudo -l' now parses /etc/sudoers containing AD groups correctly. (BZ#855836) * Previously, the sudo utility did not escape the backslash characters contained in user names properly. Consequently, if a system used sudo integrated with LDAP or Active Directory (AD) as the primary authentication mechanism, users were not able to authenticate on that system. With this update, sudo has been modified to process LDAP and AD names correctly and the authentication process now works as expected. (BZ#869287) * Prior to this update, the 'visudo -s (strict)' command incorrectly parsed certain alias definitions. Consequently, an error message was issued. The bug has been fixed, and parsing errors no longer occur when using 'visudo - - -s'. (BZ#905624) All sudo users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to correct these issues. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 853203 - Sudo -i isn't passing command arguments containing spaces properly as of sudo-1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.3 856902 - Defauts:!<user> syntax in sudoers doesn't seem to work as expected 916363 - CVE-2013-1775 sudo: authentication bypass via reset system clock 916365 - CVE-2013-1776 sudo: bypass of tty_tickets constraints 949751 - CVE-2013-2776 sudo: bypass of tty_tickets constraints 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client): Source: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/sudo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.src.rpm i386: sudo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.i386.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.i386.rpm x86_64: sudo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server): Source: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/sudo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.src.rpm i386: sudo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.i386.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.i386.rpm ia64: sudo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.ia64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.ia64.rpm ppc: sudo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.ppc.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.ppc.rpm s390x: sudo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.s390x.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.s390x.rpm x86_64: sudo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-28.el5.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package 7. References: https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-1775.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-1776.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-2776.html https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc. - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFSSguTXlSAg2UNWIIRAtwlAKCLKk70m9/uWyLEIm1+g318CaucUACfa0Rb YYD4VZy8KV2MT9Qt974bDHg= =BMck - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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