Security News > 2017 > May > Linux Flaw Allows Sudo Users to Gain Root Privileges (Security Week)
2017-05-31 17:31
A vulnerability affecting the manner in which Sudo parsed tty information could have resulted in the user gaining root privileges and being able to overwrite any file on the filesystem on SELinux-enabled systems. read more
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