Sudo for Mac OS X has been found vulnerable to buffer overflows
What is sudo?
Sudo (superuser do) is a piece of software that allows a system admin to give certain users/groups the ability to run commands as root or another user
Sudo is available with most all unix based operating systems including Mac OS X.
The Problem
On 4.23.2K1 FreeBSD, Inc. released a security advisory warning users that all version of sudo prior to version 1.6.3.7 contains a local command-line buffer overflow allowing a local user to potentially gain increased privileges on the local system.
Mac OS X 10.0.4 DOES included a fixed version of sudo …