CVE-2019-18634

CVE Details

Release Date:

2020-01-29

Description

In Sudo before 1.8.26, if pwfeedback is enabled in /etc/sudoers, users can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow in the privileged sudo process. (pwfeedback is a default setting in Linux Mint and elementary OS; however, it is NOT the default for upstream and many other packages, and would exist only if enabled by an administrator.) The attacker needs to deliver a long string to the stdin of getln() in tgetpass.c.

See more information about CVE-2019-18634 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	7.8	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	Low	User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	High
Integrity Impact:	High	Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (sudo)	ELSA-2020-0726	2020-03-05
Oracle Linux version 7 (sudo)	ELSA-2020-0540	2020-02-19
Oracle Linux version 8 (sudo)	ELSA-2020-0487	2020-02-13
Oracle VM version 3.3 (sudo)	OVMSA-2020-0006	2020-03-09
Oracle VM version 3.4 (sudo)	OVMSA-2020-0006	2020-03-09

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