PublicDateAtUSN: 2012-05-16 14:00:00
Candidate: CVE-2012-2337
CRD: 2012-05-16 14:00:00
PublicDate: 2012-05-18 18:55:00 UTC
References: 
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2337
 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/netmask.html
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1442-1
Description:
 sudo 1.6.x and 1.7.x before 1.7.9p1, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4p5, does not
 properly support configurations that use a netmask syntax, which allows
 local users to bypass intended command restrictions in opportunistic
 circumstances by executing a command on a host that has an IPv4 address.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes: 
 tyhicks> Not easy to reproduce and requires that the user exploiting this flaw
  to already be specified in the sudoers file
Bugs: 
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/1000276
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: tyhicks
CVSS: 

Patches_sudo:
 upstream: http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/80b1e4a6d4a1
 vendor: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2478
upstream_sudo: released (1.8.4p5)
hardy_sudo: released (1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.9)
lucid_sudo: released (1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.4)
natty_sudo: released (1.7.4p4-5ubuntu7.2)
oneiric_sudo: released (1.7.4p6-1ubuntu2.1)
precise_sudo: released (1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3.2)
devel_sudo: released (1.8.3p1-1ubuntu5)