vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-3156: Security patch for sudo (ALAS-2021-1590)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | 2021-01-26 | 2022-10-18 | 2024-11-26 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2021-01-26
Added
2022-10-18
Modified
2024-11-26
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)
amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sudoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sudo-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sudo-devel
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