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An unpleasant sudo vulnerability

An unpleasant sudo vulnerability

[Security] Posted Jan 28, 2021 0:15 UTC (Thu) by corbet

It would appear that "sudo" has a buffer-overflow vulnerability that allows any local user to gain root privileges, whether or not they are in the sudoers file. It has been there since 2011. See this advisory for details, but perhaps run an update first.

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