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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2021-3156
HistoryJan 26, 2021 - 9:15 p.m.

Heap overflow

2021-01-2621:15:00
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8.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.97 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.7%

Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via “sudoedit -s” and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.

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