Todd Miller Sudo Ptrace API Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:24287

Info

Todd Miller Sudo Ptrace API Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 24287
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jun 04 2007 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 04 2007 11:10PM
Credit: Trent Waddington is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: GratiSoft Sudo 1.6.8 p2
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Todd Miller Sudo Ptrace API Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The 'sudo' utility and the 'ptrace' call are prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands with superuser privileges. Successfully exploiting this issue will result in the complete compromise of affected computers.

Exploit / POC

Todd Miller Sudo Ptrace API Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The following exploit code is available:

Solution / Fix

Todd Miller Sudo Ptrace API Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: mailto:[email protected].

References

Todd Miller Sudo Ptrace API Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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