vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-3156: Security patch for sudo (ALAS-2021-1590)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 26, 2021
Added
Oct 18, 2022
Modified
Nov 26, 2024

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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