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Message-Id: <201101122056.p0CKuOsj006751@core.courtesan.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:56:23 -0500
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@...rtesan.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: sudo does not ask for password on GID changes
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:52:46 MST, Vincent Danen wrote:
> A Debian bug report noted that sudo does not access for a password on
> GID changes, like it does for UID changes. This could allow a user to
> execute commands using '-g [group]' without being prompted for their
> password.
This is fixed in sudo 1.7.4p5, available now.
I've written up details of the bug in:
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/runas_group_pw.html
- todd
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