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Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros (thehackernews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good thing I'm on Arch. They got the patched sudo package some days ago. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I think most distributions have it patched now. Processing timely updates is the critical part though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Good thing I use sudo-rs or run0

I am not brave enough to ditch sudo yet, should do that. TTY to root always works, just use a strong password. No sudo, su and other suid binaries needed