Bug#772707: sudo: should not preserve TZ by default

2015-02-19 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi, Proposed debdiff aiming for jessie is attached. Regards, Salvatore diff -Nru sudo-1.8.10p3/debian/changelog sudo-1.8.10p3/debian/changelog --- sudo-1.8.10p3/debian/changelog 2015-01-19 06:56:53.0 +0100 +++ sudo-1.8.10p3/debian/changelog 2015-02-18 17:55:25.0 +0100

Bug#772707: sudo: should not preserve TZ by default

2014-12-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
Package: sudo Version: 1.8.11p2-1 Tags: security By default, sudo preserves the TZ variable[1] from user's environment, without any sanitization. This is a bad idea on glibc systems, where you can set TZ to an arbitrary file, which will then be read by tzset(3): $ TZ=$PWD/tz sudo -u root