Decade-old vulnerability is still affecting most Linux distros – Techradar

Security researchers at Qualys discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in one of the core utilities present in all Unix-like operating systems including Linux. 
If exploited, the heap overflow vulnerability in the Sudo utility could allow any unprivileged user to gain root privileges.
The vulnerability, which has now been patched, has existed for almost a decade, according to a blog post by Animesh Jain, a Vulnerability Signatures Product Manager at Qualys.
The Sudo utility allows system…

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