Decade-old bug in Linux world’s sudo can be abused by any logged-in user to gain root privileges

Security researchers from Qualys have identified a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in sudo that can be exploited by rogue users to take over the host system. Sudo is an open-source command-line utility widely used on Linux and other Unix-flavored operating systems.

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