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Ubuntu: USN-4705-1 (CVE-2021-23239): Sudo vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4705-1 (CVE-2021-23239): Sudo vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/11/2021
Created
01/28/2021
Added
01/27/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-sudo
  • ubuntu-upgrade-sudo-ldap

References

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