sudo up to 1.8.31p2/1.9.5p1 sudoers_policy_main heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in sudo up to 1.8.31p2/1.9.5p1 (Operating System Utility Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function sudoers_policy_main. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 01/27/2021. It is possible to read the advisory at blog.qualys.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-3156. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by Rajvardhan Agarwal (r4j0x00) in C and been published 3 days after the advisory. The exploit is available at github.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k. The CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog lists this issue since 04/06/2022 with a due date of 04/27/2022:

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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Rajvardhan Agarwal (r4j0x00)
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Advisory: blog.qualys.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2021-3156 (🔍)
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 01/27/2021 09:18
Updated: 02/19/2021 23:23
Changes: 01/27/2021 09:18 (38), 01/31/2021 15:32 (8), 02/19/2021 23:20 (6), 02/19/2021 23:23 (18)
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Committer: misc

Discussion

misc (+1)
3 years ago
There is another exploit available under the URL https://haxx.in/CVE-2021-3156.tar.gz.
misc (+1)
3 years ago
The exploit in the previous comment is also available on GitHub: https://github.com/blasty/CVE-2021-3156

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