Control: severity -1 grave

Hi Bdale!

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 08:42:30PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Source: sudo
> Version: 1.8.10p3-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch upstream
> 
> Hi
> 
> sudo 1.8.20p2 fixes an issue in parsing /proc/[pid]/stat when the
> process name contains a newline.
> 
> The bug is not exploitable due to the changes in how /dev is traversed
> made in sudo 1.8.20p1 for CVE-2017-1000367.
> 
> Still it is probably good to have it fixed in a point release as well
> for stable releases (or if accepted by the release team as well
> targetted for stretch).
> 
> Announce:
> https://www.sudo.ws/pipermail/sudo-announce/2017-May/000155.html

This was as the writing of this bugreport, but ths was proven wrong
and there is another attack vector, explained in
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/02/7

I thus tend to make the severity RC and think this additional fix
should go as well to stretch.

https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/raw-rev/b5460cbbb11b

Regards,
Salvatore

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