Development Release

The current development release of sudo is 1.9.13b3.

Binary packages are also available for development releases.

For full details see the ChangeLog file or view the commit history via mercurial or GitHub.

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• Updated translations from translationproject.org.

• Fixed a bug executing a command with a very long argument vector when log_subcmds or intercept is enabled on a system where intercept_type is set to trace. GitHub issue #194.

• Fixed a bug running relative commands via sudo when log_subcmds is enabled. GitHub issue #194.

• Fixed a signal handling bug when running sudo commands in a shell script. Signals were not being forwarded to the command when the sudo process was not run in its own process group.

• Fixed a bug in the cvtsudoers LDIF parsing when the file ends without a newline and a backslash is the last character of the file.

• Fixed a potential use-after-free bug with cvtsudoers filtering. GitHub issue #198.

• Added a reminder to the default lecture that the password will not echo. This line is only displayed when the pwfeedback option is disabled. GitHub issue #195.

• Fixed potential memory leaks in error paths. GitHub issue #199. GitHub issue #202.

• Fixed potential NULL dereferences on memory allocation failure. GitHub issue #204. GitHub issue #211.

• Sudo now uses C23-style attributes in function prototypes instead of gcc-style attributes if supported.

• Added a new list pseudo-command in sudoers to allow a user to list another user’s privileges. Previously, only root or a user with the ability to run any command as either root or the target user on the current host could use the -U option. This also includes a fix to the log entry when a user lacks permission to run sudo -U otheruser -l command. Previously, the logs would indicate that the user tried to run the actual command, now the log entry includes the list operation.

• JSON logging now escapes control characters if they happen to appear in the command or environment.

• New Albanian translation from translationproject.org.

• Regular expressions in sudoers or logsrvd.conf may no longer contain consecutive repetition operators. This is implementation- specific behavior according to POSIX, but some implementations will allocate excessive amounts of memory. This mainly affects the fuzzers.

• Sudo now builds AIX-style shared libraries and dynamic shared objects by default instead of svr4-style. This means that the default sudo plugins are now .a (archive) files that contain a .so shared object file instead of bare .so files. This was done to improve compatibility with the AIX Freeware ecosystem, specifically, the AIX Freeware build of OpenSSL. Sudo will still load svr4-style .so plugins and if a .so file is requested, either via sudo.conf or the sudoers file, and only the .a file is present, sudo will convert the path from plugin.so to plugin.a(plugin.so) when loading it. This ensures compatibility with existing configurations. To restore the old, pre-1.9.13 behavior, run configure using the –with-aix-soname=svr4 option.

• Sudo no longer checks the ownership and mode of the plugins that it loads. Plugins are configured via either the sudo.conf or sudoers file which are trusted configuration files. These checks suffered from time-of-check vs. time-of-use race conditions and complicate loading plugins that are not simple paths. Ownership and mode checks are still performed when loading the sudo.conf and sudoers files, which do not suffer from race conditions. The sudo.conf developer_mode setting is no longer used.

• Control characters in sudo log messages and sudoreplay -l output are now escaped in octal format. Space characters in the command path are also escaped. Command line arguments that contain spaces are surrounded by single quotes and any literal single quote or backslash characters are escaped with a backslash. This makes it possible to distinguish multiple command line arguments from a single argument that contains spaces.

• Improved support for DragonFly BSD which uses a different struct procinfo than either FreeBSD or 4.4BSD.

• Fixed a compilation error on Linux arm systems running older kernels that may not define EM_ARM in linux/elf-em.h. GitHub issue #232.

• Fixed a compilation error when LDFLAGS contains -Wl,–no-undefined. Sudo will now link using -Wl,–no-undefined by default if possible. GitHub issue #234.