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sudo: missing input sanitizing

Package(s):sudo CVE #(s):CVE-2005-2959
Created:October 25, 2005 Updated:February 19, 2006
Description: Tavis Ormandy noticed that sudo, a program that provides limited super user privileges to specific users, does not clean the environment sufficiently. The SHELLOPTS and PS4 variables are dangerous and are still passed through to the program running as privileged user. This can result in the execution of arbitrary commands as privileged user when a bash script is executed. These vulnerabilities can only be exploited by users who have been granted limited super user privileges.
Alerts:
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.002 2006-02-18
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0062 2005-11-04
Ubuntu USN-213-1 2005-10-28
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:201 2005-10-27
Debian DSA-870-1 2005-10-25

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