Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> writes:

>  Hi.
>
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:46:48 -0500
> "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wiz...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> > How about this bug:
>> > 
>> > http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudo_debug.html
>> >  
>> >  Impact: Successful exploitation of the bug will allow a user to run
>> > arbitrary commands as root.
>> > 
>> >  Exploitation of the bug does not require that the attacker be listed
>> > in the sudoers file. As such, we strongly suggest that affected sites
>> > upgrade from affected sudo versions as soon as possible. 
>> > 
>> How valid is that considering that Wheezy is using sudo
>> version 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1 ?
>
> Perfectly valid, considering that this part of thread is about using
> sudo in the UNIX environment, not Linux one.
>
>
>> May I assume that there are still a lot of non-upgraded machines out there?
>
> Depends. For example, AIX 5, 6 and 7 all have sudo-1.6.7p5-3 (the only
> version built officially by IBM). Unless you build sudo from the source
> - no upgrades for you.
> Solaris 11.1 has sudo-1.8.6.7 out of the box.

Note that neither of these is subject to vulnerability in the bug
report.


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