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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3156 - debian/sudo

Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.

Evidence
  • imported from OSV Debian, untriaged
History
  • 2026-10-28: Awaiting approval - bulk import
  • 2026-10-29: Awaiting triage - reclassified: OSV Debian bulk import, awaiting triage