CVE-2021-3156

Sudo versiones anteriores a 1.9.5p2 contiene un error de desbordamiento que puede resultar en un desbordamiento de búfer basado en la pila, lo que permite la escalada de privilegios a root a través de "sudoedit -s" y un argumento de línea de comandos que termina con un solo carácter de barra invertida

A flaw was found in sudo. A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way sudo parses command line arguments. This flaw is exploitable by any local user who can execute the sudo command (by default, any local user can execute sudo) without authentication. Successful exploitation of this flaw could lead to privilege escalation. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Qualys has released extensive research details regarding a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in sudo. The issue was introduced in July 2011 (commit 8255ed69), and affects all legacy versions from 1.8.2 to 1.8.31p2 and all stable versions from 1.9.0 to 1.9.5p1, in their default configuration.

Sudo contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows for privilege escalation.