Medium: sudo

Issue Overview:

It was discovered that the sudo noexec restriction could have been bypassed if application run via sudo executed system() or popen() C library functions with a user supplied argument. A local user permitted to run such application via sudo with noexec restriction could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. (CVE-2016-7032)

It was discovered that the sudo noexec restriction could have been bypassed if application run via sudo executed wordexp() C library function with a user supplied argument. A local user permitted to run such application via sudo with noexec restriction could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. (CVE-2016-7076)

Affected Packages:

sudo

Issue Correction:
Run yum update sudo to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-25.23.amzn1.i686  
    sudo-1.8.6p3-25.23.amzn1.i686  
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-25.23.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    sudo-1.8.6p3-25.23.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-25.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-25.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    sudo-1.8.6p3-25.23.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2016-7032, CVE-2016-7076

Mitre: CVE-2016-7032, CVE-2016-7076