| Name | CVE-2015-5602 |
| Description | sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home/*/*/file.txt." |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-382-1, DSA-3440-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 804149 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| sudo (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u9 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1.8.19p1-2.1+deb9u3 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1.8.19p1-2.1+deb9u6 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1.8.27-1+deb10u6 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1.9.5p2-3+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.9.13p3-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.9.16p1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707
http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/9636fd256325
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277426
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/1512781