CVE-2023-42465 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sudo-devel (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-SUDODEVEL-6419274
- published8 Mar 2024
- disclosed7 Mar 2024
Introduced: 7 Mar 2024
CVE-2023-42465 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.4.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sudo-devel package and not the sudo-devel package as distributed by SLES.
Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because application logic sometimes is based on not equaling an error value (instead of equaling a success value), and because the values do not resist flips of a single bit.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42465.html
- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2024-March/018115.html
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2024/suse-su-20240795-1/
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1219026
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1220389
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42465/
- https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R4Q23NHCKCLFIHSNY6KJ27GM7FSCEVXM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6XMRUJCPII4MPWG43HTYR76DGLEYEFZ/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/23/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/24/6
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02545
- https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/7873f8334c8d31031f8cfa83bd97ac6029309e4f
- https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/tag/SUDO_1_9_15
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R4Q23NHCKCLFIHSNY6KJ27GM7FSCEVXM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6XMRUJCPII4MPWG43HTYR76DGLEYEFZ/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-29
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240208-0002/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/9
- https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/