Fedora 24: FEDORA-2017-facd994774 Critical: Sudo Escalation Issue

Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain

users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands

as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a

per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell. Features

include: the ability to restrict what commands a user may run on a

per-host basis, copious logging of each command (providing a clear

audit trail of who did what), a configurable timeout of the sudo

command, and the ability to use the same configuration file (sudoers)

on many different machines.

- update to 1.8.20p2 - added sudo package to dnf/yum protected packages

---- - update to 1.8.20p1 - fixes CVE-2017-1000367

[ 1 ] Bug #1453074 - CVE-2017-1000367 sudo: Privilege escalation in via improper get_process_ttyname() parsing

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1453074

su -c 'dnf upgrade sudo' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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