Red Hat has released a sudo security update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: sudo security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3694-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3694 Issue date: 2019-11-05
CVE Names: CVE-2019-14287
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1. Summary:

An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:

The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged commands, which are used for system management purposes, without having to log in as root.

Security Fix(es):

* sudo: Privilege escalation via 'Runas' specification with 'ALL' keyword (CVE-2019-14287)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1760531 - CVE-2019-14287 sudo: Privilege escalation via 'Runas' specification with 'ALL' keyword

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):

Source:
sudo-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.src.rpm

aarch64:
sudo-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
sudo-debugsource-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
sudo-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
sudo-debugsource-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
sudo-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
sudo-debugsource-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
sudo-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
sudo-debugsource-1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14287
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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