vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-3156: CVE-2021-3156 sudo: Heap buffer overflow in argument parsing (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2021-01-26
Added
2021-01-28
Modified
2024-11-26

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)

redhat-upgrade-sudoredhat-upgrade-sudo-debuginforedhat-upgrade-sudo-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-sudo-devel
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