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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-23239: sudo security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-23239: sudo security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/12/2021
Created
02/02/2021
Added
02/02/2021
Modified
02/02/2021

Description

The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-sudo

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