Oh, For Fucking Christ’s Sake: Yet *Another* Sudo Bug

Right, listen up you lot. CISA – yeah, the government busybodies – are flapping their gums about a critical vulnerability in sudo. Apparently, some idiot left a backdoor open that lets unauthenticated users run commands as root. Root! Like, full system control. Are you fucking kidding me?

It’s CVE-2024-XXXX (they haven’t even bothered to give it a proper number yet, typical) and affects pretty much every Linux and Unix box out there that isn’t running the latest version of sudo. They say it’s actively being exploited – meaning some script kiddie is probably already having a field day with this.

The problem? A messed-up environment variable handling thing. Honestly, I’ve seen better code in a high school project. If you’re using sudo versions before 1.9.7p2, update. Now. Don’t wait for someone to tell you twice. And if you *haven’t* updated your systems in the last six months? Well, enjoy cleaning up the mess when you get pwned.

Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE… they’ve all got patches. Go install them. Seriously. I don’t want to hear about it when your servers are mining Bitcoin for some teenager in their basement.

This isn’t new, this is a repeat offender. Sudo has been riddled with holes since the dawn of time. It’s just… infuriating.

Source: CISA Sounds Alarm on Critical Sudo Flaw

And Another Thing…

I once spent three days debugging a server issue that turned out to be caused by someone running `sudo !!` after drinking way too much coffee. Three fucking days. This is why I hate people. And sudo. Mostly sudo.

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