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Slackware 8.0 Sudo Upgrade Critical: Local Buffer Overflow Issue

slackware
Calendar Grey April 26, 2002
Dist Slackware Esm H88
New security patches address a critical memory corruption issue in Slackware enabling unauthorized users to gain root access.
New sudo packages are available to fix a security problem which may allow users to become root, or to execute arbitrary code as root.

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security advisory security fix critical threat Slackware root access local buffer overflow sudo upgrade

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security advisory security fix critical threat Slackware root access local buffer overflow sudo upgrade

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