CVE-2014-9680

CVE Details

Release Date:	2014-10-16
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

It was discovered that sudo did not perform any checks of the TZ environment variable value. If sudo was configured to preserve the TZ environment variable, a local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could possibly use this flaw to achieve system state changes not permitted by the configured commands.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	3.0
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	Single
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (sudo)	ELSA-2015-1409	2015-07-28
Oracle VM version 3.3 (sudo)	OVMSA-2015-0103	2015-07-29