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New Sudo Vulnerability Could Allow Attackers to Obtain Full Root Privileges

Posted by hanuca on · 3 comments
9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor 		Mail this story
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The Debian Project published today a new security bulletin to inform users about a Sudo vulnerability that affects the Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” operating system series.

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Comments (3)

caitlynm ·
The subject says it all. I wonder why it took so long for Debian and Ubuntu to confirm that some of their versions were affected and to offer a newer version.
Steven_Rosenber ·
I didn't really understand it, but Debian said that whatever feature/configuration was affected by the vulnerability was not implemented in Debian Stable, so they only had to patch Oldstable.
caitlynm ·
I don't know. I'm working in a RHEL/Oracle Linux/CentOS shop and I tend to use what I do for work for everything. I haven't kept up with Debian TBH.

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