The SHA-2 digest support in the sudoers plugin in sudo after 1.8.7 allows local users with write permissions to parts of the called command to replace them before it is executed.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The SHA-2 digest support in the sudoers plugin in sudo after 1.8.7 allows local users with write     permissions to parts of the called command to replace them before it is executed. (CVE-2015-8239)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

- update to 1.8.17p1

  - installs the /var/db/sudo/lectured directory

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
219004	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-8239	Nessus	Misc.	high
92337	Fedora 23 : sudo (2016-f1e8e27e27)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
92331	Fedora 22 : sudo (2016-90836ca57d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2015-8239

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high