Package : sudo Version : 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.6 CVE ID : CVE-2015-5602 Debian Bug : 804149 When sudo is configured to allow a user to edit files under a directory that they can already write to without using sudo, they can actually edit (read and write) arbitrary files. Daniel Svartman reported that a configuration like this might be introduced unintentionally if the editable files are specified using wildcards, for example: operator ALL=(root) sudoedit /home/*/*/test.txt The default behaviour of sudo has been changed so that it does not allow editing of a file in a directory that the user can write to, or that is reached by following a symlink in a directory that the user can write to. These restrictions can be disabled, but this is strongly discouraged. For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), this has been fixed in version 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.6. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy) and the stable distribution (jessie), this will be fixed soon. -- Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of Linux kernel and LTS teams
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