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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-23239

The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edi...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 sudo

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.9.5-1"}]}]

Debian:13 sudo

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.9.5-1"}]}]

Debian:14 sudo

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.9.5-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org