Sudo version 1.6.7p1 now available

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Tue Apr 1 12:27:40 EST 2003


Sudo version 1.6.7p1 is now available (mirrors listed at the end).
    ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/sudo-1.6.7p1.tar.gz
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/sudo-1.6.7p1.tar.gz

There was no formal announcement of version 1.6.7 due to a bug found
shortly after release.

Major changes since Sudo 1.6.7:

 o Fixed false positives in the overflow detection of expand_prompt().

Major changes since Sudo 1.6.6:

 o Wildcards now work correctly in an env_keep Defaults directive.

 o The owner of the timestamp directory is now configurable.

 o Sudo now supports the SecurID 5.0 API.

 o Sudo now saves and restores the state of signal handlers.
   This fixes a problem using sudo with the nohup command.

 o Sudo now uses setresuid() if it exists to properly support the
   stay_setuid Defaults directive.

 o In strict mode sudo did not throw an error for undefined User_Aliases,
   now it does.

 o Write the prompt after turning off echo to avoid some password
   characters being echoed on heavily-loaded machines with fast typists.

 o Added %U and %H escapes in the prompt and fixed treatment of %%.

 o Visudo will now add a final newline to sudoers if the user's editor
   not add one before EOF.

 o Added support for Defaults that apply based on the RunasUser.

 o Sudo now includes copies of strlc{at,py} and uses them throughout.

 o Sudo is now careful to avoid interger overflow when allocating
   memory.  This is one of those "should not happen" situations.

 o Added a configure option (--with-stow) to make sudo compatible
   with GNU stow.

 o auth/kerb5.c now compiles under Heimdal.

 o The volatile prefix is used in the hopes of preventing compilers
   from optimizing away memory zeroing.  Unfortunately, this results
   in some warnings from gcc.

 o The configure tests for Kerberos are much improved.

 o A long-standing bug in the SIGCHLD handler was fixed.

 o Added a --with-rpath configure option to pass the -R flag
   along with -L to the linker.  Enabled by default on Solaris and
   SVR4.

 o Added support for using the -blibpath ld option on AIX to add
   directories to the shared lib search path.  This is only active
   when additional library paths are used.  It may be disabled via
   the --without-blibpath configure option.

 o The --with-skey and --with-opie configure options now take
   an optional directory argument that should have an include and
   lib dir for the skey/opie include file and library respectively.

Master WWW site:
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/

WWW Mirrors:
    http://sudo.stikman.com/ (Los Angeles, California, USA)
    http://mirage.informationwave.net/sudo/ (Fanwood, New Jersey, USA)
    http://sudo.planetmirror.com/ (Australia)
    http://sudo.cdu.elektra.ru/ (Russia)

FTP Mirrors:
    ftp.cs.colorado.edu:/pub/sudo/ (Boulder, Colorado, USA)
    ftp.stikman.com:/pub/sudo/ (Los Angeles, California, USA)
    ftp.uu.net:/pub/security/sudo/ (Falls Church, Virginia, USA)
    ftp.tux.org:/pub/security/sudo/ (Beltsville, Maryland, USA)
    ftp.cerias.purdue.edu:/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/sudo/ (West Lafayette, Indiana, USA)
    ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu:/pub/sudo/ (Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
    ftp.tamu.edu:/pub/mirrors/ftp.courtesan.com/ (College Station, Texas, USA)
    ftp.rge.com:/pub/admin/sudo/ (Rochester, New York, USA)
    ftp.wiretapped.net:/pub/security/host-security/sudo/ (Australia)
    ftp.tuwien.ac.at:/utils/admin-tools/sudo/ (Austria)
    sunsite.ualberta.ca:/pub/Mirror/sudo/ (Alberta, Canada)
    ftp.csc.cuhk.edu.hk:/pub/packages/unix-tools/sudo/ (Hong Kong, China)
    ftp.eunet.cz:/pub/security/sudo/ (Czechoslovakia)
    ftp.umds.ac.uk:/pub/sudo/ (Great Britain)
    ftp.lps.ens.fr:/pub/software/sudo/ (France)
    ftp.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de:/pub/unix/security/sudo/ (Germany)
    ftp.win.ne.jp:/pub/misc/sudo/ (Japan)
    ftp.st.ryukoku.ac.jp:/pub/security/tool/sudo/ (Japan)
    ftp.eos.hokudai.ac.jp:/pub/misc/sudo/ (Japan)
    ftp.tokyonet.ad.jp:/pub/security/sudo/ (Japan)
    ftp.cin.nihon-u.ac.jp:/pub/util/sudo/ (Japan)
    core.ring.gr.jp:/pub/misc/sudo/ (Japan)
    ftp.ring.gr.jp:/pub/misc/sudo/ (Japan)
    ftp.ayamura.org:/pub/sudo/ (Japan)
    ftp.sai.msu.su:/pub/unix/security/ (Russia)
    ftp.cdu.elektra.ru:/pub/unix/security/sudo/ (Russia)
    ftp.sekure.net:/pub/sudo/ (Sweden)
    ftp.edu.tw:/UNIX/sudo/ (Taiwan)
    ftp.comu.edu.tr:/pub/linux/prog/sudo/ (Turkey)


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