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When was the last time you've checked your OS vulnerability? — Vertica Forum

When was the last time you've checked your OS vulnerability?

mosheg Vertica Employee Administrator

October 2019 in Tips from the Team

Everybody are talking about the sudo security vulnerability found yesterday, (CVE-2019-14287)
Because none-root users can get root privilege using sudo -u#-1 on the command line.
If sudo is enabled on you system, check your sudo version: sudo -V
The bug is fixed in sudo 1.8.28.
See: https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/minus_1_uid.html

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