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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4839-1 sudo -- security update

Date Reported:

26 Jan 2021

Affected Packages:

sudo

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-3156.

More information:

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 the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.27-1+deb10u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your sudo packages.

For the detailed security status of sudo please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/sudo