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SUSE-SU-2025:20478-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2025-07-15 14:48 - Updated: 2025-07-15 14:48
Summary
Security update for sudo
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for sudo
Description of the patch: This update for sudo fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-32462: Fix a possible local privilege escalation via the --host option (bsc#1245274) - CVE-2025-32463: Fix a possible local privilege Escalation via chroot option (bsc#1245275)
Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-182
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2025-32462
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.1:sudo-1.9.15p5-slfo.1.1_2.1.aarch64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.1:sudo-1.9.15p5-slfo.1.1_2.1.s390x —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.1:sudo-1.9.15p5-slfo.1.1_2.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact important
CVE-2025-32463
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Recommended 3 products, the same list as for CVE-2025-32462
Threats
Impact important
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