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Scientific Linux alert SL-sudo-20120716 (sudo)

From:  riehecky@fnal.gov
To:  scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov
Subject:  Security ERRATA Moderate: sudo on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64
Date:  Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:25:49 -0500
Message-ID:  <201207162125.q6GLPnng026062@fefmon2.fnal.gov>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Synopsis: Moderate: sudo security update Issue Date: 2012-07-16 CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-2337 The sudo (superuser do) utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root. A flaw was found in the way the network matching code in sudo handled multiple IP networks listed in user specification configuration directives. A user, who is authorized to run commands with sudo on specific hosts, could use this flaw to bypass intended restrictions and run those commands on hosts not matched by any of the network specifications. (CVE-2012-2337) All users of sudo are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue. SL5: i386 sudo-1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.i386.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.i386.rpm x86_64 sudo-1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.x86_64.rpm SL6: i386 sudo-1.7.4p5-12.el6_3.i686.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.4p5-12.el6_3.i686.rpm x86_64 sudo-1.7.4p5-12.el6_3.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.4p5-12.el6_3.x86_64.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team


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