CVE-2011-0008

sudo in Fedora vulnerable to CVE-2009-0034 again due to improper patch rediff

Published Jan 20, 2011 CVSS 2.0 · 6.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-0035 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.
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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 9:36 PM
Reserved
Dec 7, 2010, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 20, 2011, 7:00 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:26 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jan 14, 2011, 12:00 AM