Sudo: Heap-based overflow with small passwords

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  • sudo

    Utility to execute a command as another user

  • To put the relative simplicity it perspective, here is the official Github mirror of sudo:

    https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo

    On the contributors tab:

    https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors

    We can see that sudo has been maintained by one person for ~29 years who has single-handedly committed 2,936,000 changes over that time resulting in a net increase of ~480,000. It is also being actively developed with ~270,000 changes resulting in a net increase of ~40,000 lines in the last twelve months.

    In contrast doas is, just eyeballing it, maybe ~500 lines and at most 1000 lines all together.

  • nosystemd.org

    Website for arguments against systemd and further resources

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