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USN-8803-1: Sudo vulnerability

Guannan Wang, Zhanpeng Liu, and Guancheng Li discovered that Sudo failed to apply intercept policy checks when commands were executed under certain circumstances. A local attacker permitted to run specific commands could possibly use this issue to bypass policy enforcement and logging, executing unauthorized programs.

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