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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-18634: Security patch for sudo (ALAS-2020-1404)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-18634: Security patch for sudo (ALAS-2020-1404)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/29/2020
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

In Sudo before 1.8.26, if pwfeedback is enabled in /etc/sudoers, users can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow in the privileged sudo process. (pwfeedback is a default setting in Linux Mint and elementary OS; however, it is NOT the default for upstream and many other packages, and would exist only if enabled by an administrator.) The attacker needs to deliver a long string to the stdin of getln() in tgetpass.c.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sudo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sudo-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sudo-devel

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