Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Sebastien Macke discovered that Sudo incorrectly handled blacklisted environment variables when the env_reset option was disabled.
A local attacker could use this issue to possibly run unintended commands by using blacklisted environment variables. In a default Ubuntu installation, the env_reset option is enabled by default. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-0106)
It was discovered that the Sudo init script set a date in the past on existing timestamp files instead of using epoch to invalidate them completely. A local attacker could possibly modify the system time to attempt to reuse timestamp files. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.10. (LP: #1223297)
Affected
sudo on Ubuntu 13.10 ,
Ubuntu 12.10 ,
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-0106 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.6
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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