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Fedora 33 Sudo Heap Overflow Advisory FEDORA-2021-2cb63d912a Moderate

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 33 patch addresses CVE-2021-3156, a vulnerable heap overflow issue within sudo, bolstering security concerning root access rights.
Security fix for CVE-2021-3156

Summary

Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain

users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands

as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a

per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell. Features

include: the ability to restrict what commands a user may run on a

per-host basis, copious logging of each command (providing a clear

audit trail of who did what), a configurable timeout of the sudo

command, and the ability to use the same configuration file (sudoers)

on many different machines.

Security fix for CVE-2021-3156

* Tue Jan 26 2021 Matthew Miller - 1.9.5p2-1

- rebase to 1.9.5p2

Resolves: rhbz#1920611

- fixed CVE-2021-3156 sudo: Heap buffer overflow in argument parsing

Resolves: rhbz#1920618

[ 1 ] Bug #1917684 - CVE-2021-3156 sudo: Heap buffer overflow in argument parsing

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917684

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-2cb63d912a' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 33
Version: 1.9.5p2
Release: 1.fc33
URL: Summary : Allows restricted root access for specified users

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