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Fedora 42: Sudo Critical Update for LPE Vulnerability CVE-2025-32462

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Calendar Grey July 7, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Sudo 1.9.18p1 released to address privilege escalation vulnerability in Fedora 42. Urgent update advised for enhanced security.

Rebase to sudo 1.9.17p1 sudo-1_9_16p2 is available

Summary

Update Information:

Rebase to sudo 1.9.17p1 sudo-1_9_16p2 is available. Resolves: rhbz#2309626 sudo: LPE via host option. Resolves: CVE-2025-32462 Properly apply system buildflags. Use new build macros, drop unneeded %defattr.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora local privilege escalation important system update Linux application

Change Log

* Sat Jul 5 2025 Bjrn Esser - 1.9.17-2.p1 - Re-apply changes from commit e2e397029e0d35046a4cf891e075d24c7540da4f * Sat Jul 5 2025 Bjrn Esser - 1.9.17-1.p1 - Rebase to sudo 1.9.17p1 - sudo-1_9_16p2 is available Resolves: rhbz#2309626 - sudo: LPE via host option Resolves: CVE-2025-32462 - Properly apply system buildflags - Use new build macros, drop unneeded %%defattr * Mon Jun 2 2025 Python Maint - 1.9.15-8.p5 - Rebuilt for Python 3.14

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2309626 - sudo-1_9_16p2 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309626 [ 2 ] Bug #2375842 - [Minor Incident] CVE-2025-32462 sudo: LPE via host option [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2375842

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-44c3b13554' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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