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Security ERRATA Moderate: sudo on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:46:23 -0500
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Synopsis:	Moderate: sudo security update
Issue date:	2010-04-20
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-1163

In configurations where the ignore_dot option was set to off (the 
default is on for the Scientific Linux 5 sudo package), a local user 
authorized to use the sudoedit pseudo-command could possibly run 
arbitrary commands with the privileges of the users sudoedit was 
authorized to run as. (CVE-2010-1163)


SL 5.x

     SRPMS:
sudo-1.7.2p1-6.el5_5.src.rpm
     i386:
sudo-1.7.2p1-6.el5_5.i386.rpm
     x86_64:
sudo-1.7.2p1-6.el5_5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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