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openSUSE Security Update : sudo (openSUSE-2017-744)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101137

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for sudo fixes the following security issue :

 - CVE-2017-1000368: A follow-up fix to CVE-2017-1000367, the Linux process name could also contain a newline, which could be used to trick sudo to read/write to an arbitrary open terminal. (bsc#1042146)

Also the following non security bug was fixed :

 - Link the 'system_group' plugin with sudo_util library to resolve the missing sudo_dso_findsym symbol (bsc#1034560)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected sudo packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034560

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042146

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101137

File Name: openSUSE-2017-744.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/30/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sudo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sudo-test, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sudo-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sudo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sudo-debugsource

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000367, CVE-2017-1000368