[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: sudo-1.7.2p5-1.fc11

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-3415
2010-03-03 01:37:08
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Name        : sudo
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.7.2p5
Release     : 1.fc11
URL         : http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
Summary     : Allows restricted root access for specified users
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

- update to new upstream version  - backported changes from F-12  - fixes
CVE-2010-0426 sudo: sudoedit option can possibly allow for arbitrary code
execution [Fedora all] (#567676)
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Mar  1 2010 Daniel Kopecek <dkopecek at redhat.com> 1.7.2p5-1
- update to new upstream version
- backport changes from F-12
* Thu Jul  9 2009 Daniel Kopecek <dkopecek at redhat.com> 1.7.1-4
- moved the closefrom() call before audit_help_open() (sudo-1.7.1-auditfix.patch)
* Wed Jul  8 2009 Daniel Kopecek <dkopecek at redhat.com> 1.7.1-3
- epoch number sync
* Mon Jun 22 2009 Daniel Kopecek <dkopecek at redhat.com> 1.7.1-2
- fixed small bug in configure.in (sudo-1.7.1-conffix.patch)
- sudo-1.7.1-audit.patch rediff because of missing code
* Tue May 12 2009 Daniel Kopecek <dkopecek at redhat.com> 1.7.1-1
- updated sudo to version 1.7.1
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #567337 - CVE-2010-0426 sudo: sudoedit option can possibly allow for arbitrary code execution
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567337
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update sudo' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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