Feb. 18th, 2021
Not long ago, a critical flaw in Linux SUDO was discovered and is being tracked as CVE-2021-3156. Given the nickname "Baron Samedit," it's a flaw in a Unix program that allows system admins to provide root level privileges to any users listed in the "sudoers" file. More disturbing, however, is the fact that just over a week from the time this piece was written, researchers stumbled across the fact that the Sudo privilege escalation also impacts the latest version of macOS, Big Sur 11.2. Linux developers have already moved to patch the issue in various Linux distros, including Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu, which are three of the most popular. However, there is currently no fix yet for macOS, and no ETA for when one will be released. Apple has…