sudo: Privilege escalation

sudo: Privilege escalation Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo, the worst of which could result in privilege escalation. sudo 2025-07-01 2025-07-01 959314 local and remote 1.9.17_p1 1.9.17_p1

sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

An attacker can escalate privileges to root by providing a special argument to sudo's --chroot (which is used for chroot purposes). Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All sudo users should upgrade to the latest version:


          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/sudo-1.9.17_p1"

CVE-2025-32462 CVE-2025-32463 sam sam