{"id":"MGASA-2015-0443","summary":"Updated sudo packages fix security vulnerability","details":"An unauthorized privilege escalation was found in sudoedit in sudo before\n1.8.15 when a user is granted with root access to modify a particular file\nthat could be located in a subset of directories. It seems that sudoedit\ndoes not check the full path if a wildcard is used twice\n(e.g. /home/*/*/file.txt), allowing a malicious user to replace the\nfile.txt real file with a symbolic link to a different location\n(e.g. /etc/shadow), which results in unauthorized access (CVE-2015-5602).\n\nThe sudo package has been updated to version 1.8.15, which fixes this\nissue, and also includes many other bug fixes and changes.  See the\nupstream change log for details.\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:24:39.215674844Z","published":"2015-11-10T21:26:39Z","upstream":["CVE-2015-5602"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0443.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17117"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"sudo","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/sudo?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.8.15-1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0443.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}