vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-42465: Security patch for sudo (ALAS-2024-2447)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 22, 2023
Added
Feb 8, 2024
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because application logic sometimes is based on not equaling an error value (instead of equaling a success value), and because the values do not resist flips of a single bit.

Solutions

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Title
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