National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-1051
Original release date:03/01/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
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):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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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
External Source: XF
Name: sudo-bash-command-execution(18055)
Type: Advisory
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2004-0061
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/bash_functions.html
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-596
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2005-05-03
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2004:133
External Source: OPENPKG
Name: OpenPKG-SA-2005.002
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-28-1
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20041112 Sudo version 1.6.8p2 now available (fwd)