[$] A major vulnerability in Sudo

A longstanding hole in the Sudoprivilege-delegation tool that was discoveredin late January is a potent local vulnerability. Exploiting it allows local usersto run code of their choosing as root by way of a bog-standard heap-bufferoverflow. It seems like the kind of bug that might have been found earlier viacode inspection or fuzzing, but it has remained in this security-sensitiveutility since it was introduced in 2011.