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Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0811-03
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0811-03 - A security update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9.
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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_0811.json
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: sudo security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:0811-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0811
Issue date: 2024-02-14
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-28486
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Summary:
A security update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system
administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute
privileged commands, which are used for system management purposes, without
having to log in as root.
Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):
- CVE-2023-28487 sudo: Sudo does not escape control characters in sudoreplay output
- CVE-2023-28486 sudo: Sudo does not escape control characters in log messages
- CVE-2023-42465 sudo: Targeted Corruption of Register and Stack Variables
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-28486
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2179272
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2179273
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255568
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