CVE-2015-5602

sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home/*/*/file.txt."

Date published : 2015-11-17

http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html