CVE-2014-9680

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-10-16

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.

See more information about CVE-2014-9680 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	3	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	Requires single instance	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

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