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sudo: privilege escalation

Package(s):sudo CVE #(s):CVE-2013-2776
Created:October 1, 2013 Updated:October 2, 2013
Description: From the CVE entry:

sudo 1.3.5 through 1.7.10p5 and 1.8.0 through 1.8.6p6, when running on systems without /proc or the sysctl function with the tty_tickets option enabled, does not properly validate the controlling terminal device, which allows local users with sudo permissions to hijack the authorization of another terminal via vectors related to connecting to a standard input, output, and error file descriptors of another terminal. NOTE: this is one of three closely-related vulnerabilities that were originally assigned CVE-2013-1776, but they have been SPLIT because of different affected versions.

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2013:1353-01 2013-09-30
Oracle ELSA-2013-1353 2013-10-02

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