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RHSA-2023:0284: Red Hat Security Advisory: sudo security update
An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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: sudo: arbitrary file write with privileges of the RunAs user
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Issued:
2023-01-23
Updated:
2023-01-23
RHSA-2023:0284 - Security Advisory
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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 8.
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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
Fixes
- BZ - 2161142 - CVE-2023-22809 sudo: arbitrary file write with privileges of the RunAs user
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8
SRPM
sudo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.src.rpm
SHA-256: e812bd0f72136b7b8c72b0101c4c417b72e9ed278c4d681bc2b7b92a4efcb485
x86_64
sudo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 091f69b916d1214a67761ea22675f6afc095b84b91b0d169587bee4d6f327b76
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 5d598215f76377c6a6433d1e0c9395993e833290b51e10049027fbe8c6905fc6
sudo-debugsource-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: d8061546d2dd649e58327e9a02b9279c66fa394923dfd00bc8d0824d48f1f282
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8
SRPM
sudo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.src.rpm
SHA-256: e812bd0f72136b7b8c72b0101c4c417b72e9ed278c4d681bc2b7b92a4efcb485
s390x
sudo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: 3c3f0b9f7ab2ea32968e22695f5314cbe541f1bedfcc23f83f5b363a5ced3678
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: dfa85da3065a2ef886ef9f9b0723023390bd505fb262f94c8b92cc5fcfce575b
sudo-debugsource-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: 2f4d22e8d51171514b477764ea0c809076b56ef9c020440c9e3186ad50f193c6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8
SRPM
sudo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.src.rpm
SHA-256: e812bd0f72136b7b8c72b0101c4c417b72e9ed278c4d681bc2b7b92a4efcb485
ppc64le
sudo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 2a0974f073e39c9ba3ee7b2950b39a6c39fd8b5ae29bdadc31d1f8175f82f2bd
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 6525895b00bf7b992ee95df42934277c6c5ac99c141c18f96a47ed5662398ebf
sudo-debugsource-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 391ce252876dbca5be45fb73ca0e84a5ac44bc28b0cedf9f08481f3e8f41ab54
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8
SRPM
sudo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.src.rpm
SHA-256: e812bd0f72136b7b8c72b0101c4c417b72e9ed278c4d681bc2b7b92a4efcb485
aarch64
sudo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
SHA-256: 97162a9206522318182a2cfa49fcec3d03547122cde44f0af5875783d1215f2a
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
SHA-256: 041ae7347d825f59b9f87714eb1c066fe1df063c616258b985143d857f0f942a
sudo-debugsource-1.8.29-8.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
SHA-256: d39d0d2a8f80db247d8f3853fd0fa42d5caf3e1e34d497539cd74cac08ed047c
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