CVE-2021-23239
The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| sudo_project / sudo | - | 1.8.32 |
| sudo_project / sudo | 1.9.0 | 1.9.5 |
| fedoraproject / fedora | 32 | 32.x |
| fedoraproject / fedora | 33 | 33.x |
| debian / debian_linux | 10.0 | 10.0.x |
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00007.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-33
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/
- https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5
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