CVE-2023-42465 (GCVE-0-2023-42465)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-22 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 19:23
Severity ?
Summary
Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because application logic sometimes is based on not equaling an error value (instead of equaling a success value), and because the values do not resist flips of a single bit.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02545Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/7873f8334c8d31031f8cfa83bd97ac6029309e4fPatch
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/tag/SUDO_1_9_15Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R4Q23NHCKCLFIHSNY6KJ27GM7FSCEVXM/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6XMRUJCPII4MPWG43HTYR76DGLEYEFZ/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-29
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240208-0002/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/9Exploit, Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02545Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/7873f8334c8d31031f8cfa83bd97ac6029309e4fPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/tag/SUDO_1_9_15Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R4Q23NHCKCLFIHSNY6KJ27GM7FSCEVXM/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6XMRUJCPII4MPWG43HTYR76DGLEYEFZ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-29
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240208-0002/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/9Exploit, Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/Release Notes
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