[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: sudo-1.8.12-1.fc20

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-2247
2015-02-18 23:39:01
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Name        : sudo
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.8.12
Release     : 1.fc20
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 1.8.12
- fixes CVE-2014-9680

Update to 1.8.11p2

Major upstream changes & fixes:
- when running a command in the background, sudo will now forward SIGINFO to the command
- the passwords in ldap.conf and ldap.secret may now be encoded in base64.
- SELinux role changes are now audited. For sudoedit, we now audit the actual editor being run, instead of just the sudoedit command.
- it is now possible to match an environment variable's value as well as its name using env_keep and env_check
- new files created via sudoedit as a non-root user now have the proper group id
- sudoedit now works correctly in conjunction with sudo's SELinux RBAC support
- it is now possible to disable network interface probing in sudo.conf by changing the value of the probe_interfaces setting
- when listing a user's privileges (sudo -l), the sudoers plugin will now prompt for the user's password even if the targetpw, rootpw or runaspw options are set.
- the new use_netgroups sudoers option can be used to explicitly enable or disable netgroups support
- visudo can now export a sudoers file in JSON format using the new -x flag

Distribution specific changes:
- added patch to read ldap.conf more closely to nss_ldap
- require /usr/bin/vi instead of vim-minimal
- include pam.d/system-auth in PAM session phase from pam.d/sudo
- include pam.d/sudo in PAM session phase from pam.d/sudo-i

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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 18 2015 Daniel Kopecek <dkopecek at redhat.com> - 1.8.12
- update to 1.8.12
- fixes CVE-2014-9680
* Mon Nov  3 2014 Daniel Kopecek <dkopecek at redhat.com> - 1.8.11p2-1
- update to 1.8.11p2
- added patch to fix upstream bug #671 -- exiting immediately
  when audit is disabled
* Tue Sep 30 2014 Daniel Kopecek <dkopecek at redhat.com> - 1.8.11-1
- update to 1.8.11
- major changes & fixes:
  - when running a command in the background, sudo will now forward
    SIGINFO to the command
  - the passwords in ldap.conf and ldap.secret may now be encoded in base64. 
  - SELinux role changes are now audited. For sudoedit, we now audit
    the actual editor being run, instead of just the sudoedit command. 
  - it is now possible to match an environment variable's value as well as
    its name using env_keep and env_check
  - new files created via sudoedit as a non-root user now have the proper group id
  - sudoedit now works correctly in conjunction with sudo's SELinux RBAC support
  - it is now possible to disable network interface probing in sudo.conf by
    changing the value of the probe_interfaces setting
  - when listing a user's privileges (sudo -l), the sudoers plugin will now prompt
    for the user's password even if the targetpw, rootpw or runaspw options are set.
  - the new use_netgroups sudoers option can be used to explicitly enable or disable
    netgroups support
  - visudo can now export a sudoers file in JSON format using the new -x flag
- added patch to read ldap.conf more closely to nss_ldap
- require /usr/bin/vi instead of vim-minimal
- include pam.d/system-auth in PAM session phase from pam.d/sudo
- include pam.d/sudo in PAM session phase from pam.d/sudo-i
* Tue Aug  5 2014 Tom Callaway <spot at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.8-5
- fix license handling
* Sat May 31 2014 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org> 1.8.8-4
- Drop ChangeLog, we ship NEWS
* Mon Mar 10 2014 Daniel Kopecek <dkopecek at redhat.com> - 1.8.8-3
- remove bundled copy of zlib before compilation
- drop the requiretty Defaults setting from sudoers
* Sat Jan 25 2014 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 1.8.8-2
- Own the %{_libexecdir}/sudo dir.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1191144 - CVE-2014-9680 sudo: unsafe handling of TZ environment variable
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191144
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
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