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...

Sudo Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Sudo is a program used on Unix-like systems that allows the user to execute commands in a secure way with special privileges. Sudo suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the system...

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

Qualys Security Advisory Baron Samedit: Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo CVE-2021-3156 ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary Analysis Exploitation Acknowledgments Timelin...

sudo security update

1.8.23-10.1 - RHEL 7.9.Z ERRATUM - CVE-2021-3156 Resolves: rhbz1917729...

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...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : sudo (SUSE-SU-2021:0227-1)

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...

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 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...

Debian DSA-4839-1 : 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. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

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...

Fedora 33 : sudo (2021-2cb63d912a)

The remote Fedora 33 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-2cb63d912a 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-2021:0226)

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...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : sudo (SUSE-SU-2021:0225-1)

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 7 : sudo (RHSA-2021:0225)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0225 advisory. The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged...

Slackware 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : sudo (SSA:2021-026-01)

New sudo packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2021-026-01. The text itself is copyrigh...

RHEL 7 : sudo (RHSA-2021:0222)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0222 advisory. The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged...

GLSA-202101-33 : sudo: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202101-33 sudo: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : Local users are able to gain unauthorized privileges on the...

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...