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Unrated severityCISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Jan 26, 2021· Updated Oct 21, 2025

CVE-2021-3156

CVE-2021-3156

Description

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.

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