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Discussion on: sudoedit (`sudo -e`) security flaw (CVE-2023-22809)

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spO0q πŸ’πŸŽƒ • Edited

hey hey ^^:

sudo apt update; sudo apt --only-upgrade install sudo
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If you can update. Otherwise, you can force install by downloading the tar file and make make install

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spO0q πŸ’πŸŽƒ

Although, read that before:

If no users have been granted access to sudoedit there is no impact.

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nabbisen

Hi, thank you so much for your detailed information ✨
You are perfectly right. We can make it installed πŸ˜†

Well, thank you, again. I added the description about "Impact" to my post with the appreciation to you.

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spO0q πŸ’πŸŽƒ

Pleasure.

Yes, impact is really important in such news. I'm actually quite surprised they found something.

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nabbisen

Impact πŸ’‘ I learned with your kind description 😌
Agreed. They are really surprising and awesome.