[olug] Update Sudo

Anthony Kava karver at forensic.coffee
Wed Jan 27 14:52:23 CST 2021


If you want to do a quick test (might have some false negatives) try this:

  sudoedit -s '\' `perl -e 'print "A" x 65536'`

Should segfault if vulnerable, return Usage message if not.  Again, not
sure if 100% but worked in anecdotal testing with Ubuntu 16.04, 20.4,
Raspbian, and CentOS 6 and 7.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 2:24 PM Jon Larsen <jon at jonlarsen.us> wrote:

> 10-year-old Sudo Bug Lets Linux Users Gain Root-Level Access
>
> https://linux.slashdot.org/story/21/01/27/1820205/10-year-old-sudo-bug-lets-linux-users-gain-root-level-access
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Kava


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