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RHSA-2023:3262: Red Hat Security Advisory: sudo security update
An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
Related CVEs:
- CVE-2023-22809: A vulnerability was found in sudo. Exposure in how sudoedit handles user-provided environment variables leads to arbitrary file writing with privileges of the RunAs user (usually root). The prerequisite for exploitation is that the current user must be authorized by the sudoers policy to edit a file using sudoedit.
Issued:
2023-05-23
Updated:
2023-05-23
RHSA-2023:3262 - Security Advisory
- Overview
- Updated Packages
Synopsis
Important: sudo security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
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Topic
An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.
Security Fix(es):
- sudo: arbitrary file write with privileges of the RunAs user (CVE-2023-22809)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 2161142 - CVE-2023-22809 sudo: arbitrary file write with privileges of the RunAs user
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6
SRPM
sudo-1.8.23-3.el7_6.3.src.rpm
SHA-256: 4058ed3da0ec98ea2fea57bb7d05cec6444a0b95ae56f8f02f2512032e024c61
x86_64
sudo-1.8.23-3.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: d6f4f327ec186f9773683411eb77978be1082ccd9972543e303a9298d3ff68b6
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.23-3.el7_6.3.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 56736cec11d3a5049d635560aa51b079c3426a90ccd88eb6a3add30d08220ebb
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.23-3.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: c8428e9ac3d9ab7cf5fec253abead77918bf1e10e48a1d7266a73fda234c2527
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.23-3.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: c8428e9ac3d9ab7cf5fec253abead77918bf1e10e48a1d7266a73fda234c2527
sudo-devel-1.8.23-3.el7_6.3.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 8f5d36ad432da3381f811fd0dd5f0b3d8c6b676328aff046a980fb3a5a82c50b
sudo-devel-1.8.23-3.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 37b695a1f523039a7ad880e95dd806af7c10d2ee39e012a4ecfb51267ecc23f9
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