Advisories MDVSA-2010:078: sudo

[paul]

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in sudo:

 

The command matching functionality in sudo 1.6.8 through 1.7.2p5 does

not properly handle when a file in the current working directory has

the same name as a pseudo-command in the sudoers file and the PATH

contains an entry for ., which allows local users to execute arbitrary

commands via a Trojan horse executable, as demonstrated using sudoedit,

a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0426 (CVE-2010-1163).

 

Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0

customers.

 

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.