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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by wtfishackernews on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:49PM (#25920865)
sudo --version

anything below version 1.9.5p2 is affected

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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by comfydragon on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:52PM (#25920907)
Unless the patches have been backported, as is the case for Ubuntu 18.04, in which case it may not need to be 1.9.5p2. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/1.8.21p2-3ubuntu1....
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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by jzer0cool on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @04:01PM (#25921006)
how to patch (e.g. ubuntu)? or requires compiling from source?

EDIT: see above post provided by comfydragon

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