Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- 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/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R4Q23NHCKCLFIHSNY6KJ27GM7FSCEVXM/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6XMRUJCPII4MPWG43HTYR76DGLEYEFZ/ ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/23/2 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/24/6 ↗