10 Year Old Heap Buffer-Overflow Vulnerability Discovered in Sudo

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In a recent disclosure, Quays provides technical details about a heap buffer-overflow vulnerability in the “sudo” utility that Unix and Linux system administrators use to perform administrative actions safely, without remaining logged in to the “root” user account constantly to perform other tasks. The bug, tracked as CVE-2021-3156, allows low privilege users who are not […]

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