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by nequo 1249 days ago
Ubuntu shipped the patch three days ago. The output of `apt changelog sudo` on 22.04 LTS:

  sudo (1.9.9-1ubuntu2.2) jammy-security; urgency=medium

    * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary file overwrite via sudoedit
      - debian/patches/CVE-2023-22809.patch: do not permit editor arguments
        to include -- in plugins/sudoers/editor.c, plugins/sudoers/sudoers.c,
        plugins/sudoers/visudo.c.
      - CVE-2023-22809
    * SECURITY UPDATE: DoS via invalid arithmetic shift in Protobuf-c
      - debian/patches/CVE-2022-33070.patch: only shift unsigned values in
        lib/protobuf-c/protobuf-c.c.
      - CVE-2022-33070

   -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@ubuntu.com>  Mon, 16 Jan 2023 07:36:33 -0500
There is a detailed explanation on the sudo website: https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/sudoedit_any/