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OS X update for sudo (CVE-2014-9680)

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OS X update for sudo (CVE-2014-9680)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/29/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/29/2016
Modified
03/18/2020

Description

sudo before 1.8.12 does not ensure that the TZ environment variable is associated with a zoneinfo file, which allows local users to open arbitrary files for read access (but not view file contents) by running a program within an sudo session, as demonstrated by interfering with terminal output, discarding kernel-log messages, or repositioning tape drives.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_10_5

References

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