[sudo-announce] sudo 1.8.18p1 released

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Thu Oct 27 11:10:14 MDT 2016


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Sudo version 1.8.18p1 is now available, this is a bug fix release.
It has actually been available since October 11 but was not properly
announced at that time.

Depending on your sudoers file configuration, the bug fixed in
1.8.18p1 may have a security impact.  For more information, see
https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/noexec_wordexp.html

Source:
    https://www.sudo.ws/dist/sudo-1.8.18p1.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/sudo-1.8.18p1.tar.gz

SHA256 checksum:
    e5a0471c721281a693025bbde33ebd9d3db43245d83ab8516bbfc23980379434
MD5 checksum:
    28f5214d5bcb5af5710decb95184a0a6

Binary packages:
    https://www.sudo.ws/download.html#binary

For a list of download mirror sites, see:
    https://www.sudo.ws/download_mirrors.html

Sudo web site:
    https://www.sudo.ws/

Sudo web site mirrors:
    https://www.sudo.ws/mirrors.html

Major changes between sudo 1.8.18p1 and 1.8.18:

 * When sudo_noexec.so is used, the WRDE_NOCMD flag is now added
   if the wordexp() function is called.  This prevents commands
   from being run via wordexp() without disabling it entirely.

 * On Linux systems, sudo_noexec.so now uses a seccomp filter to
   disable execute access if the kernel supports seccomp.  This is
   more robust than the traditional method of using stub functions
   that return an error.

Major changes between sudo 1.8.18 and 1.8.17p1:

 * The sudoers locale is now set before parsing the sudoers file.
   If sudoers_locale is set in sudoers, it is applied before
   evaluating other Defaults entries.  Previously, sudoers_locale
   was used when evaluating sudoers but not during the inital parse.
   Bug #748.

 * A missing or otherwise invalid #includedir is now ignored instead
   of causing a parse error.

 * During "make install", backup files are only used on HP-UX where
   it is not possible to unlink a shared object that is in use.
   This works around a bug in ldconfig on Linux which could create
   links to the backup shared library file instead of the current
   one.

 * Fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.17 where sudoers entries with long
   commands lines could be truncated, preventing a match.  Bug #752.

 * The fqdn, runas_default and sudoers_locale Defaults settings are
   now applied before any other Defaults settings since they can
   change how other Defaults settings are parsed.

 * On systems without the O_NOFOLLOW open(2) flag, when the NOFOLLOW
   flag is set, sudoedit now checks whether the file is a symbolic link
   before opening it as well as after the open.  Bug #753.

 * Sudo will now only resolve a user's group IDs to group names
   when sudoers includes group-based permissions.  Group lookups
   can be expensive on some systems where the group database is
   not local.

 * If the file system holding the sudo log file is full, allow
   the command to run unless the new ignore_logfile_errors Defaults
   option is disabled.  Bug #751.

 * The ignore_audit_errors and ignore_iolog_errors Defaults options
   have been added to control sudo's behavior when it is unable to
   write to the audit and I/O logs.

 * Fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.17 where the SIGPIPE signal handler
   was not being restored when sudo directly executes the command.

 * Fixed a bug where "sudo -l command" would indicate that a command
   was runnable even when denied by sudoers when using the LDAP or
   SSSD backends.

 * The match_group_by_gid Defaults option has been added to allow
   sites where group name resolution is slow and where sudoers only
   contains a small number of groups to match groups by group ID
   instead of by group name.

 * Fixed a bug on Linux where a 32-bit sudo binary could fail with
   an "unable to allocate memory" error when run on a 64-bit system.
   Bug #755

 * When parsing ldap.conf, sudo will now only treat a '#' character
   as the start of a comment when it is at the beginning of the
   line.

 * Fixed a potential crash when auditing is enabled and the audit
   function fails with an error.  Bug #756

 * Norwegian Nynorsk translation for sudo from translationproject.org.

 * Fixed a typo that broke short host name matching when the fqdn
   flag is enabled in sudoers.  Bug #757

 * Negated sudoHost attributes are now supported by the LDAP and
   SSSD backends.

 * Fixed matching entries in the LDAP and SSSD backends when a
   RunAsGroup is specified but no RunAsUser is present.

 * Fixed "sudo -l" output in the LDAP and SSSD backends when a
   RunAsGroup is specified but no RunAsUser is present.
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