Fedora 13 : sudo-1.7.2p6-1.fc13 (2010-6756)

update to new upstream version - merged .audit and .libaudit patch - added sudoers.ldap.5 to files - http://sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoeditescalate2.html Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted...

Fedora 13 : sudo-1.7.2p6-2.fc13 (2010-9402)

added patch that fixes insufficient environment sanitization issue CVE-2010-1646 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...

Path traversal

The secure path feature in env.c in sudo 1.3.1 through 1.6.9p22 and 1.7.0 through 1.7.2p6 does not properly handle an environment that contains multiple PATH variables, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted value of the last PATH variable...

[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: sudo-1.7.2p6-1.fc12

Sudo superuser do allows a system administrator to give certain users or groups of users the ability to run some or all commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell. Features include: the ability to restrict...