Article Number
000065825
CVE ID
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
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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