MDKSA-2001:024

Package name

sudo

Date

2001-02-26

Advisory ID

MDKSA-2001:024

Affected versions

7.1 i586 , 7.2 i586

Problem description

A buffer overflow exists in the sudo program which could be used by an attacker to obtain higher privileges. sudo is a program used to delegate superuser privileges to ordinary users and only for specific commands.

Updated packages

7.1 i586

 99e75efab098e51b516f8030eafb2993  7.1/RPMS/sudo-1.6.3p6-1.2mdk.i586.rpm
672e152db4d8d0e742ad404cf81ca3d1  7.1/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.3p6-1.2mdk.src.rpm

7.2 i586

 fe583824271ac2a5af6dd533027e8794  7.2/RPMS/sudo-1.6.3p6-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
2327674548ed850b078d3ae1badf7d2e  7.2/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.3p6-1.1mdk.src.rpm