SUDO Vulnerability - CVE-2021-3156 in RSA Authentication Manager 8.5 P2
Originally Published: 2021-04-09
Last Modified: 2023-10-06
Article Number
000065825
Applies To
RSA Authentication manager 8.5 P2
CVE Identifier(s)
CVE-2021-3156
Article Summary
"Sudo before 1.9.5p2 has a Heap-based Buffer Overflow, allowing privilege escalation to root"

The RSA AM8.5 P2 has the sudo version: sudo-1.8.20p2-3.17.1.x86_64
However, the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 is not listed under affected Packages on the vulnerability Issued.
 
Link to Advisories
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3156
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2021-3156

 
Alert Impact Explanation
The RSA AM8.5 P2 has the sudo version: sudo-1.8.20p2-3.17.1.x86_64 and it has the vulnerability. The sudo version 1.8.20p2-3.20.1 released in patch 3 does not have the CVE-2021-3156 vulnerability.
Resolution
Patch 3 for AM 8.5 resolves this vulnerability. The Sudo will be updated to version 1.8.20p2-3.20.1.
Disclaimer
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