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CVE request: sudo does not ask for password on GID changes


From: Vincent Danen <vdanen () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:52:46 -0700

A Debian bug report noted that sudo does not access for a password on
GID changes, like it does for UID changes.  This could allow a user to
execute commands using '-g [group]' without being prompted for their
password.

It uses a (newer?) syntax; on 1.6.7p5 at least the '(ALL:ALL)'
specification gives a syntax error; I'm not sure when this behaviour was
introduced.

References:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609641
http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/fe8a94f96542
http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/07d1b0ce530e
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668879

Could a CVE name be assigned to this please?

Thanks.

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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team

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