The Qualys Security team discovered that sudo, a program designed to provide limited super user privileges to specific users, does not properly parse "/proc/[pid]/stat" to read the device number of the tty from field 7 (tty_nr). A sudoers user can take advantage of this flaw on an SELinux-enabled system to obtain full root privileges.
Duplicate of bug 20996, and already fixed in Cauldron. Please check http://madb.mageia.org/tools/security before filing security bug reports :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 20996 ***
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATEStatus: NEW => RESOLVED