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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma_linux | — | Upgrade sudo | May 4, 2022 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade sudo | Aug 22, 2024 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade sudoUpgrade sudo-debuginfoUpgrade sudo-devel | Oct 18, 2022 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Amazon_linux | — | Upgrade sudo | Oct 18, 2022 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Apple Osx Sudo | — | Upgrade macOS to the latest version | Feb 19, 2021 | Feb 9, 2021 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade sudo-debuginfoUpgrade sudo-develUpgrade sudoUpgrade sudo-debugsource | Jan 28, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade sudo | Jan 28, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade sudo | Jan 27, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade app-admin/sudo. | Jan 27, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade sudo | Feb 22, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3 | — | Upgrade sudo | Feb 22, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5 | — | Upgrade sudo | Mar 24, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp8 | — | Upgrade sudo | Feb 2, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp9 | — | Upgrade sudo | Feb 8, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Mcafee Web Gateway | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Web Gateway | Sep 23, 2026 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Nutanix Ahv | — | Upgrade Nutanix AHV to the latest version | Jun 5, 2026 | Aug 24, 2022 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade security/sudo to version 1.8.28-0.175.3.36.0.25.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade security/sudo to version 1.8.31.1-11.4.30.0.1.88.3 on Solaris 11.4 | Feb 17, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade sudoUpgrade sudo-devel | Jan 27, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Redhat Openshift | — | Upgrade redhat-coreos | Mar 12, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade sudo-develUpgrade sudo-debugsourceUpgrade sudo-debuginfoUpgrade sudo | Jan 28, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade sudo-develUpgrade sudoUpgrade sudo-testUpgrade sudo-plugin-python | Jan 28, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade sudo-ldapUpgrade sudo (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade sudo | Jan 27, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Jan 26, 2021 |
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