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CVE-2021-3156 (GCVE-0-2021-3156)
Vulnerability from nvd
Published
2021-01-26 00:00
Modified
2025-10-21 23:35
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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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CVE-2016-1834 (GCVE-0-2016-1834)
Vulnerability from nvd
Published
2016-05-20 10:00
Modified
2025-12-04 17:15
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlStrncat function in libxml2 before 2.9.4, as used in Apple iOS before 9.3.2, OS X before 10.11.5, tvOS before 9.2.1, and watchOS before 2.2.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document.
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CVE-2021-3156 (GCVE-0-2021-3156)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-26 00:00
Modified
2025-10-21 23:35
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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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Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-05-20 10:00
Modified
2025-12-04 17:15
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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