Updating sudo to sudo-1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.2 changes permissions on /etc/nsswitch.conf
Issue
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Updating the sudo package changed permissions of the
/etc/nsswitch.conffile. -
This issue may affect some regular user process using gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr() and getaddrinfo().
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- sudo
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