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TITLE:
Mandriva update for sudo

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21692

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21692/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Mandriva Linux 2006
http://secunia.com/product/9020/

DESCRIPTION:
Mandriva has issued an update for sudo. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA17534
SA18358

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

Mandrivalinux 2006

859526089cecbc00c11b0c76509f97b1 
2006.0/RPMS/sudo-1.6.8p8-2.3.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 7dce7457a74d625018aee6690bcc35d7 
2006.0/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.8p8-2.3.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandrivalinux 2006/X86_64

8ab6e95323473f6f1f72c255aa4453ae 
x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/sudo-1.6.8p8-2.3.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 7dce7457a74d625018aee6690bcc35d7 
x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.8p8-2.3.20060mdk.src.rpm

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:159

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17534:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17534/

SA18358:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18358/

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