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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: USN-1046-1 Moderate: Sudo Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2011
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Urgent notice for Ubuntu users: A critical update fixes a sudo vulnerability allowing unauthorized root access. Update your system immediately to enhance security
Alexander Kurtz discovered that sudo would not prompt for a password when a group was specified in the Runas_Spec

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security advisory moderate code execution sudo local attack ubuntu

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sudo vulnerability

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security advisory moderate code execution sudo local attack ubuntu

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