MGASA-2021-0056 Updated sudo packages fix security vulnerability

A serious heap-based buffer overflow has been discovered in sudo that is exploitable by any local user. It has been given the name Baron Samedit by its discoverer. The bug can be leveraged to elevate privileges to root, even if the user is not listed in the sudoers file. User authentication is no...

Updated sudo packages fix security vulnerability

A serious heap-based buffer overflow has been discovered in sudo that is exploitable by any local user. It has been given the name Baron Samedit by its discoverer. The bug can be leveraged to elevate privileges to root, even if the user is not listed in the sudoers file. User authentication is no...

sudo security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2021:0221 An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4839-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Sudo Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (Baron Samedit) - Version Check

Sudo is prone to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability dubbed SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Vulnerabilities fixed in sudo

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in sudo. A local malicious party can, by exploiting these vulnerabilities, gain gain root privileges on the vulnerable system. The developers of sudo have released updates to fix the vulnerability marked CVE-2021-3156 in version 1.9.5p2. The vulnerabilities...

Sudo Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (Baron Samedit) - Active Check

Sudo is prone to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability dubbed SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

FreeBSD : sudo -- Multiple vulnerabilities (f3cf4b33-6013-11eb-9a0e-206a8a720317)

Todd C. Miller reports : When invoked as sudoedit, the same set of command line options are now accepted as for sudo -e. The -H and -P options are now rejected for sudoedit and sudo -e which matches the sudo 1.7 behavior. This is part of the fix for CVE-2021-3156. Fixed a potential buffer overflo...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : sudo (SUSE-SU-2021:0226-1)

This update for sudo fixes the following issues : A Heap-based buffer overflow in sudo could be exploited to allow a user to gain root privileges bsc1181090,CVE-2021-3156 It was possible for a user to test for the existence of a directory due to a Race Condition in sudoedit...

RHEL 8 : sudo (RHSA-2021:0220)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0220 advisory. The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged...

Fedora 32 : sudo (2021-8840cbdccd)

The remote Fedora 32 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-8840cbdccd advisory. - 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...

RHEL 7 : sudo (RHSA-2021:0224)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0224 advisory. The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Sudo vulnerabilities (USN-4705-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4705-1 advisory. It was discovered that Sudo incorrectly handled memory when parsing command lines. A local attacker could possibly use this issue...

RHEL 7 : sudo (RHSA-2021:0226)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0226 advisory. The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged...

Security update for sudo (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for sudo Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0169-1 Rating: important References: 1180684 1180685 1180687 1181090 Cross-References: CVE-2021-23239 CVE-2021-23240 CVE-2021-3156 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 An update that solves three vulnerabilities...

Oracle Linux 6 : sudo (ELSA-2021-9019)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9019 advisory. - Sudo before 1.9.5p2 has a Heap-based Buffer Overflow, allowing privilege escalation to root via sudoedit -s and a command-line argument that ends with a singl...

Debian DLA-2534-1 : sudo security update

The Qualys Research Labs discovered a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in sudo, a program designed to provide limited super user privileges to specific users. Any local user sudoers and non-sudoers can exploit this flaw for root privilege escalation. For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has...

Oracle Linux 7 : sudo (ELSA-2021-0221)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-0221 advisory. 1.8.23-10.1 - RHEL 7.9.Z ERRATUM - CVE-2021-3156 Resolves: rhbz1917729 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux...

RHEL 7 : sudo (RHSA-2021:0221)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0221 advisory. The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged...

RHEL 8 : sudo (RHSA-2021:0218)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0218 advisory. The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged...