vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2021-3156: Important: sudo security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/26/2021
Added
01/28/2021
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.

Solution(s)

centos-upgrade-sudocentos-upgrade-sudo-debuginfocentos-upgrade-sudo-debugsourcecentos-upgrade-sudo-devel
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