Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-1074 (sudo)

Summary
The remote host is missing an update to sudo announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-1074.
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update sudo' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-1074
Insight
Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell. Features include: the ability to restrict what commands a user may run on a per-host basis, copious logging of each command (providing a clear audit trail of who did what), a configurable timeout of the sudo command, and the ability to use the same configuration file (sudoers) on many different machines. Update Information: Fix for incorrect handling of groups in Runas_User ChangeLog: * Thu Jan 29 2009 Daniel Kopecek 1.6.9p17-5 - Fix for incorrect handling of groups in Runas_User
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