fkie_cve-2023-42465
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2023-12-22 16:15
Modified
2025-11-04 22:15
Severity ?
Summary
Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because application logic sometimes is based on not equaling an error value (instead of equaling a success value), and because the values do not resist flips of a single bit.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| sudo_project | sudo | * |
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