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Critical #Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on #Linux, Impacting Major Distros (mastodon.thenewoil.org)

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Critical #Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on #Linux, Impacting Major Distros

https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/critical-sudo-vulnerabilities-let-local.html

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[–] ChuckMcManis@chaos.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

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CVE-2025-32463 (CVSS score: 9.3) - Sudo before 1.9.17p1 allows local users to obtain root access because "/etc/nsswitch.conf" from a user-controlled directory is used with the --chroot option

This is a really lame CVE. Yikes.