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Red Hat Reports a Flow in Sudo



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Red Hat reports a flow in sudo. They found a heap-based buffer overflow in the way sudo parses command line arguments. This flaw is exploitable by any local user. Counts for normal users and system users, sudo-ers and non-sudo-ers, without authentication. Meaning: the attacker does not need to know the user’s password. Successful exploitation of this flaw could lead to privilege escalation. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

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