Off-by-one Error Affecting sudo package, versions <1.9.5_p2-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
96.37% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-SUDO-8489577
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed26 Jan 2021

Introduced: 26 Jan 2021

CVE-2021-3156  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-193  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 sudo to version 1.9.5_p2-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sudo package and not the sudo package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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