CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-0008

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2011-01-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-01-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

A certain Fedora patch for parse.c in sudo before 1.7.4p5-1.fc14 on Fedora 14 does not properly interpret a system group (aka %group) in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-0034 regression.

Affected configurations

• todd miller sudo (<= 1.7.4p5) • todd miller sudo 1.3.1 • todd miller sudo 1.5 • todd miller sudo 1.5.2 • todd miller sudo 1.5.3 • todd miller sudo 1.5.6 • todd miller sudo 1.5.7 • todd miller sudo 1.5.8 • todd miller sudo 1.5.9 • todd miller sudo 1.6 • todd miller sudo 1.6.1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.2p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.2p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.2p3 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p3 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p4 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p6 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p7 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p3 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p4 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p6 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p7 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4 p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4 p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5 p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5 p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.6 • todd miller sudo 1.6.7 • todd miller sudo 1.6.7 p5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.7p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.7p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.7p3 • todd miller sudo 1.6.7p4 • todd miller sudo 1.6.7p5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p7 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p8 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p9 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p12 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8p3 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8p4 … and 54 more

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