CVE-2021-3156

Publication date

2021-01-26 00:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.