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RHSA-2021:0221

sudo security update

Released 2021-01-27 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →

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Priority CRITICAL 93KEV

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…

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8 Local Low privileges No interaction EPSS 0.99962 Published 2021-01-26 Fixed CWE-193