ALAS-2024-514


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-514
Advisory Release Date: 2024-02-01 17:56 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-02-26 14:00 Pacific
Severity: Low

Issue Overview:

2024-02-26: The severity of this advisory has been changed from important to low.

Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because application logic sometimes is based on not equaling an error value (instead of equaling a success value), and because the values do not resist flips of a single bit. (CVE-2023-42465)


Affected Packages:

sudo


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update sudo --releasever 2023.3.20240205 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    sudo-logsrvd-debuginfo-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    sudo-python-plugin-debuginfo-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    sudo-debuginfo-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    sudo-devel-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    sudo-python-plugin-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    sudo-logsrvd-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    sudo-debugsource-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    sudo-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64

src:
    sudo-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.src

x86_64:
    sudo-debuginfo-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    sudo-devel-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    sudo-python-plugin-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    sudo-logsrvd-debuginfo-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    sudo-logsrvd-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    sudo-python-plugin-debuginfo-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    sudo-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    sudo-debugsource-1.9.14-1.p3.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64