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openSUSE: 2020:0244-1 Important: Buffer Overflow In Sudo

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Calendar Grey February 25, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Crucial openSUSE patch released for sudo fixing buffer overflow vulnerabilities and other critical issues. Security advisory issued promptly.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for sudo fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2019-18634: Fixed a buffer overflow in the passphrase prompt that

could occur when pwfeedback was enabled in /etc/sudoers (bsc#1162202).

Non-security issue fixed:

- Fixed an issue where sudo -l would ask for a password even though

`listpw` was set to `never` (bsc#1162675).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-244=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

sudo-1.8.22-lp151.5.6.1

sudo-debuginfo-1.8.22-lp151.5.6.1

sudo-debugsource-1.8.22-lp151.5.6.1

sudo-devel-1.8.22-lp151.5.6.1

sudo-test-1.8.22-lp151.5.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18634.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1162202

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1162675

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0244-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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