github - ghsa-3r97-xp9v-83jf

ghsa-3r97-xp9v-83jf

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-11-02 19:00

Modified

2025-05-05 15:30

Severity ?

7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

Sudo 1.8.0 through 1.9.12, with the crypt() password backend, contains a plugins/sudoers/auth/passwd.c array-out-of-bounds error that can result in a heap-based buffer over-read. This can be triggered by arbitrary local users with access to Sudo by entering a password of seven characters or fewer. The impact could vary depending on the compiler and processor architecture.

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CVE-2022-43995 (GCVE-0-2022-43995)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-11-02 00:00

Modified

2025-05-05 13:45

Severity ?

7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CWE

n/a

Summary

Sudo 1.8.0 through 1.9.12, with the crypt() password backend, contains a plugins/sudoers/auth/passwd.c array-out-of-bounds error that can result in a heap-based buffer over-read. This can be triggered by arbitrary local users with access to Sudo by entering a password of seven characters or fewer. The impact could vary depending on the system libraries, compiler, and processor architecture.

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/
	https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/bd209b9f16fcd1270c13db27ae3329c677d48050
	https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465707
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2139911
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-08	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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