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Fedora update for sudo Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA15771  
Release Date: 2005-06-22

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4


CVE reference:CVE-2005-1993 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Fedora has issued an update for sudo. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to execute arbitrary commands with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA15744

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

Fedora Core 3:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

27d3ac5cf6a5fa1f1a64e0ef9d7d376f SRPMS/sudo-1.6.7p5-30.3.src.rpm
fa32f996cff5742f020255c7158f19f3 x86_64/sudo-1.6.7p5-30.3.x86_64.rpm
ddc89a1195e89afc5763a2f3f578793c x86_64/debug/sudo-debuginfo-1.6.7p5-30.3.x86_64.rpm
2bcc58a51241cdfc1a27b2d964e3a3ae i386/sudo-1.6.7p5-30.3.i386.rpm
bf4d6a03b0a23e0475b85a06b6650257 i386/debug/sudo-debuginfo-1.6.7p5-30.3.i386.rpm

Fedora Core 4:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

559f249ff294bbe3d4e656246a923082 SRPMS/sudo-1.6.8p8-2.2.src.rpm
de408134c434cea2b1ed8d17d95b477a ppc/sudo-1.6.8p8-2.2.ppc.rpm
1c2a778cf3e51af35ac8b114cee4ba20 ppc/debug/sudo-debuginfo-1.6.8p8-2.2.ppc.rpm
558b31097f4174f5c391c22c6c53cfe1 x86_64/sudo-1.6.8p8-2.2.x86_64.rpm
95bbcc2ff79deee94c23ced8db72c14b x86_64/debug/sudo-debuginfo-1.6.8p8-2.2.x86_64.rpm
6791e18e0bb604c38183e28638e9750a i386/sudo-1.6.8p8-2.2.i386.rpm
3be32b8c99f2228b91e31d3c01b25374 i386/debug/sudo-debuginfo-1.6.8p8-2.2.i386.rpm

Other References:
SA15744:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15744/



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