[Bug 1512781] Re: CVE-2015-5602 - Unauthorized Privilege Escalation

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** Changed in: sudo (Debian)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  CVE-2015-5602 - Unauthorized Privilege Escalation

Status in sudo:
  Unknown
Status in sudo package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in sudo source package in Precise:
  Confirmed
Status in sudo source package in Trusty:
  Confirmed
Status in sudo source package in Vivid:
  Confirmed
Status in sudo source package in Wily:
  Confirmed
Status in sudo source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed
Status in sudo package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/

  As descpribed in the link above, sudo versions lower or equal than
  1.8.14 have a security issue: user with root access to a path with
  more than one wildcard can access forbidden files such as /etc/shadow,
  because sudoedit (sudo -e) does not verifiy full path of accessed
  file:

  (quote from link above)

  It seems that sudoedit does not check the full path if a wildcard is used
  twice (e.g. /home/*/*/file.txt), allowing a malicious user to replace the
  file.txt real file with a symbolic link to a different location (e.g.
  /etc/shadow).

  As an expample,

  1. Give user `usr' right to edit some his files:

  usr ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: sudoedit /home/*/*/test.txt

  2. Under usr, create ~/temp directory, and then create a symblink
  ~/temp/test.txt to /etc/shadow

  3. Perform sudoedit ~/temp/test.txt - you will able to access
  /etc/shadow.

  What realease is affected: tested on all supported now Ubuntu
  versions. For personaly me, it's 14.04 LTS.

  What version is affected: as mentioned, all versions <=1.8.14. For
  personally me, it's 1.8.9p5

  What was expected and happend instead: sudoedit should check full real
  path, but it didn't.

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