Sudo Vulnerability

From: Rick.Robinson@bankofamerica.com
Date: 04/29/02 

Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:32:50 -0500
From: Rick.Robinson@bankofamerica.com
To: security@FreeBSD.org

Last week an advisory was put out for Sudo specifying a potential local root
compromise in Sudo versions 1.5.7 - 1.6.5p2. I saw that the Sudo 1.6.6
packages are available for FreeBSD, but does the lack of a SA or SN from
FreeBSD mean that previous versions are not vulnerable? Thanks for the help.

Rick

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