ubuntu · CVE-2015-5602

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Priority: medium Published: 2015-11-17 15:59:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2015-5602 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (sudo), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 9, ignored 4, released 1.

Description:

sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home/*/*/file.txt."

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