CVE-2023-42465 (GCVE-0-2023-42465)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-22 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:08
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
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