CVE-2023-42465
CVE-2023-42465
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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.
CVSS 7.0 · High · EPSS 0.5% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
n/a
- Versions
- n/a: Affected
No fix published
sudo Debian:12
- Versions
- 1.9.13p3-1
- 1.9.13p3-1+deb12u1
- 1.9.13p3-1+deb12u2
- 1.9.13p3-1+deb12u3
- 1.9.13p3-1+deb12u4
- 1.9.13p3-2
- 1.9.13p3-3
- 1.9.14p2-1
- 1.9.15p2-1
- 1.9.15p2-2
- 1.9.15p3-1
- 1.9.15p4-1
- 1.9.15p4-2
- 1.9.15p5-1
- 1.9.15p5-2
- 1.9.15p5-3
- 1.9.15p5-3+hurd.1
- 1.9.16-1
- 1.9.16-2
- 1.9.16p1-1
- 1.9.16p2-1
- 1.9.16p2-2
- 1.9.16p2-3
- 1.9.17p1-1
- 1.9.17p2-1
- 1.9.17p2-1exp1
- 1.9.17p2-2
- 1.9.17p2-3
- 1.9.17p2-4
- 1.9.17p2-5
- 1.9.17p2-6
- 1.9.17p2-7
- 1.9.17p2-8
- 1.9.17p2-9
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
sudo Debian:13
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 1.9.15p2-2
Update to 1.9.15p2-2
sudo Debian:14
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 1.9.15p2-2
Update to 1.9.15p2-2
Original sources
- https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/9
- https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/7873f8334c8d31031f8cfa83bd97ac6029309e4f
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02545
- https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/tag/SUDO_1_9_15
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-29
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6XMRUJCPII4MPWG43HTYR76DGLEYEFZ/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240208-0002/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R4Q23NHCKCLFIHSNY6KJ27GM7FSCEVXM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/R4Q23NHCKCLFIHSNY6KJ27GM7FSCEVXM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/U6XMRUJCPII4MPWG43HTYR76DGLEYEFZ/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/23/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/24/6
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42465