Detections
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CVE-2015-5602
high
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."
References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html
https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/decret
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-5556
http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html