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CVE-2019-18634

high · 7.8

In Sudo before 1.8.26, if pwfeedback is enabled in /etc/sudoers, users can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow in the privileged sudo process. (pwfeedback is a default setting in Linux Mint and elementary OS; however, it is NOT the default for upstream and many other packages, and would exist only if enabled by an administrator.) The attacker needs to deliver a long string to the stdin of getln() in tgetpass.c.

7.8
CVSS
19.4%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
97th
EPSS percentile
2020-01-29
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
sudo_projectsudo>= 1.7.1, < 1.8.26
debiandebian_linux8.0
debiandebian_linux9.0
debiandebian_linux10.0

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References

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