PublicDateAtUSN: 2021-01-12 09:15:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2021-23239
PublicDate: 2021-01-12 09:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23239
 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/11/2
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4705-1
Description:
 The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local
 unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning
 a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a
 symlink to an arbitrary path.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Mitigation:
Bugs:
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N [2.5 LOW]


Patches_sudo:
 upstream: https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/ea19d0073c02
upstream_sudo: needs-triage
precise/esm_sudo: ignored (end of ESM support, was needs-triage)
trusty_sudo: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_sudo: needs-triage
xenial_sudo: released (1.8.16-0ubuntu1.10)
esm-infra/xenial_sudo: released (1.8.16-0ubuntu1.10)
bionic_sudo: released (1.8.21p2-3ubuntu1.4)
focal_sudo: released (1.8.31-1ubuntu1.2)
groovy_sudo: released (1.9.1-1ubuntu1.1)
hirsute_sudo: released (1.9.4p2-2ubuntu2)
impish_sudo: released (1.9.4p2-2ubuntu2)
jammy_sudo: released (1.9.4p2-2ubuntu2)
devel_sudo: released (1.9.4p2-2ubuntu2)