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High ALAS2023-2026-1559 1 CVE

Important: sudo security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Apr 13, 2026 · Updated Apr 13, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-35535: In Sudo through 1.9.17p2 before 3e474c2, a failure of a setuid, setgid, or setgroups call, during a privilege drop before running the mailer, is not a fatal error and can lead to privilege escalation.

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 sudo 0:1.9.15-1.p5.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 sudo-debuginfo 0:1.9.15-1.p5.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 sudo-debugsource 0:1.9.15-1.p5.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 sudo-devel 0:1.9.15-1.p5.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 sudo-logsrvd 0:1.9.15-1.p5.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 sudo-logsrvd-debuginfo 0:1.9.15-1.p5.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 sudo-python-plugin 0:1.9.15-1.p5.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 sudo-python-plugin-debuginfo 0:1.9.15-1.p5.amzn2023.0.3

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-35535.html