Bug#349729: sudo: Removes all user environment variables except TERM, LANG and LANGUAGE

2006-01-24 Thread Jeremy Yoder
Package: sudo Version: 1.6.8p7-1.3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software This version of sudo is practically unuseable because all environment variables are removed. Try the following in 1.6.8p7-1.2 and 1.6.8p7-1.3: sudo env You'll quickly notice that none of the user

Bug#349729: (sudo: Removes all user environment variables except TERM, LANG and LANGUAGE)

2006-01-24 Thread Jeremy Yoder
After reviewing the patch differences between 1.2 and 1.3 I can see why it's broken. Looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] submitted a half-done security patch. His end goal of making sudo require users to white-list environment variables rather than black-list them may have merit or it may not. It