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Arch Linux: Information disclosure (CVE-2021-23239)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 12, 2021
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A security issue was found in sudo before version 1.9.5. A race condition in sudoedit could have allowed an attacker to test for the existence of directories in arbitrary locations in the file system.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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