National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-1051

Overview

sudo before 1.6.8p2 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by using "()" style environment variables to create functions that have the same name as any program within the bash script that is called without using the program's full pathname.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)

We do not consider this to be a security issue: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139478#c1

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: BID

Name: 11668

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11668

External Source: XF

Name: sudo-bash-command-execution(18055)

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/18055

External Source: TRUSTIX

Name: 2004-0061

Hyperlink:http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0061/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/bash_functions.html

Hyperlink:http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/bash_functions.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-596

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-596

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2005-05-03

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/May/msg00001.html

External Source: MANDRAKE

Name: MDKSA-2004:133

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:133

External Source: OPENPKG

Name: OpenPKG-SA-2005.002

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110598298225675&w=2

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-28-1

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110073149111410&w=2

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20041112 Sudo version 1.6.8p2 now available (fwd)

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110028877431192&w=2