CVE-2015-5602

Publication date 17 November 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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."

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
sudo 20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

Backporting the fix for this issue is risky, may introduce regressions, and will change behaviour for existing users, possibly preventing them from using their existing configuration. For this reason, we will not be fixing this issue in stable releases.