Old Ubuntu Bug Lets Malicious Users Gain Sudo Access

[nkawit]

Full story here:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/An-Old-Ubuntu-Bug-Lets-Malicious-Users-Gain-Sudo-Access-479625.shtml

It appears that there's a bug in Ubuntu distributions which lets malicious users locally exploit sudo and gain access to the user's account without knowing their password. The bug was submitted to Canonical's Launchpad back in September 2013 by user Mark Smith.

 

[AthenianOwl]

A few hours after Mark Smith posted this information on a Reddit thread, the bug was assigned to Marc Deslauriers and confirmed to affect Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn), and Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) operating systems.

Wtf, I thought it was already fixed.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Lovely little bug that one...