Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for sudo. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for sudo
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33885
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33885/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/339/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for sudo. This fixes a security issue,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.
For more information:
SA33753
SOLUTION:
Update to "app-admin/sudo-1.7.0" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200902-01.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA33753:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33753/
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