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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-14287: Security patch for sudo (ALAS-2019-1309)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-14287: Security patch for sudo (ALAS-2019-1309)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/12/2019
Created
10/17/2019
Added
10/15/2019
Modified
08/25/2020

Description

In Sudo before 1.8.28, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and session PAM modules, and can cause incorrect logging, by invoking sudo with a crafted user ID. For example, this allows bypass of !root configuration, and USER= logging, for a "sudo -u \#$((0xffffffff))" command.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-sudo

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