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Oracle Linux: CVE-2025-32463: ELSA-2025-11537: sudo security update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 30, 2025
Added
Jul 24, 2025
Modified
Oct 31, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in Sudo. This flaw allows a local attacker to escalate their privileges by tricking Sudo into loading an arbitrary shared library using the user-specified root directory via the `-R` (`--chroot`) option. An attacker can run arbitrary commands as root on systems that support `/etc/nsswitch.conf`.

Solutions

oracle-linux-upgrade-sudooracle-linux-upgrade-sudo-python-plugin
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