ubuntu · CVE-2007-3149

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Priority: medium Published: 2007-06-11 18:30:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:41:37 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2007-3149 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (sudo), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

sudo, when linked with MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5), does not properly check whether a user can currently authenticate to Kerberos, which allows local users to gain privileges, in a manner unintended by the sudo security model, via certain KRB5_ environment variable settings. NOTE: another researcher disputes this vulnerability, stating that the attacker must be "a user, who can already log into your system, and can already use sudo."

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