[sudo-workers] sudo 1.8.5b2 available

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Fri Mar 16 15:06:24 EDT 2012


The second beta version of sudo 1.8.5 is now available.

Source:
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/beta/sudo-1.8.5b2.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/beta/sudo-1.8.5b2.tar.gz

Binary packages:
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/beta/packages/index.html

Major changes between sudo 1.8.5b2 and 1.8.5b1:

 * Fixed a potential double free exposed by changes in 1.8.5b1.

Major changes between sudo 1.8.5b1 and 1.8.4p4:

 * When "noexec" is enabled, sudo_noexec.so will now be prepended
   to any existing LD_PRELOAD variable instead of replacing it.

 * The user/group/mode checks on sudoers files have been relaxed.
   As long as the file is owned by the sudoers uid, not world-writable
   and not writable by a group other than the sudoers gid, the file
   is considered OK.  Note that visudo will still set the mode to
   the value specified at configure time.

 * It is now possible to specify the sudoers path, uid, gid and
   file mode as options to the plugin in the sudo.conf file.

 * Lithuanian and Vietnamese translations from translationproject.org.

 * /etc/environment is no longer read directly on Linux systems
   when PAM is used.  Sudo now merges the PAM environment into the
   user's environment which is typically set by the pam_env module.

 * The plugin API has been extended in three ways.  First, options
   specified in sudo.conf after the plugin pathname are passed to
   the plugin's open function.  Second, sudo has limited support
   for hooks that can be used by plugins.  Currently, the hooks are
   limited to environment handling functions.  Third, the init_session
   policy plugin function is passed a pointer to the user environment
   which can be updated during session setup.  The plugin API version
   has been incremented to version 1.2.  See the sudo_plugin manual
   for more information.



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