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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS USN-983-1 Critical: Sudo User Verification Flaw

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2010
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Unveil the advisory from September 2010 concerning Ubuntu, which highlights a significant vulnerability in sudo that could be exploited locally.
Markus Wuethrich discovered that sudo did not always verify the user when a group was specified in the Runas_Spec

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security advisory critical code execution local exploit sudo ubuntu user verification

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