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...

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...

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...

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...

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-2021:0226)

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 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...

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-2021:0225)

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...

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...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2021-3.0-0188

Updates of 'sudo' packages of Photon OS have been released...

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...

Security update for sudo (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for sudo Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0170-1 Rating: important References: 1180684 1180685 1180687 1181090 Cross-References: CVE-2021-23239 CVE-2021-23240 CVE-2021-3156 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 An update that solves three vulnerabilities...

Fedora: Security Advisory for sudo (FEDORA-2021-2cb63d912a)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4705-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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...

CentOS: Security Advisory for sudo (CESA-2021:0221)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-2534-1)

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...

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...

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...

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...