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Posted on 31 March 2015
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:126
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : sudo
Date : March 29, 2015
Affected: Business Server 2.0
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Problem Description:
Updated sudo packages fix security vulnerability:
Prior to sudo 1.8.12, the TZ environment variable was passed through
unchecked. Most libc tzset() implementations support passing
an absolute pathname in the time zone to point to an arbitrary,
user-controlled file. This may be used to exploit bugs in the C
library's TZ parser or open files the user would not otherwise have
access to. Arbitrary file access via TZ could also be used in a denial
of service attack by reading from a file or fifo that will block
(CVE-2014-9680).
The sudo package has been updated to version 1.8.12, fixing this
issue and several other bugs.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9680
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0079.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 2/X86_64:
6ed0eae05d8850045a5e3195b19f1b86 mbs2/x86_64/sudo-1.8.12-1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
28b150485a3212819aed04e3f9d57479 mbs2/x86_64/sudo-devel-1.8.12-1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
aff8ffe7a8374c94f38058b5464d7e5c mbs2/SRPMS/sudo-1.8.12-1.mbs2.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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