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CVE-2021-3156

Published: 2021-01-26T21:15Z
Last Modified: 2025-04-03T19:47Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
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. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt