Linux Sudo Privilege Escalation (Out-of-bounds Write)

high Nessus Plugin ID 146799

Version 1.161

Dec 18, 2024, 9:32 PM

  • Detection (Set a prompt of our own in 'nix shells to handle misconfigured scan user prompts)

Plugin Feed: 202412182132

Version 1.160

Dec 18, 2024, 7:05 AM

  • Detection (Fixed SSH authentication using the "none" method)

Plugin Feed: 202412180705

Version 1.159

Dec 6, 2024, 8:13 PM

  • Detection (Better debugging related to local checks evaluations)

Plugin Feed: 202412062013

Version 1.158

Dec 3, 2024, 3:59 PM

  • Detection (Support Azure Linux for generated package plugins.)

Plugin Feed: 202412031559

Version 1.157

Nov 6, 2024, 2:41 PM

  • Detection (adding support for Forescout CounterACT)

Plugin Feed: 202411061441

Version 1.156

Oct 10, 2024, 4:58 AM

  • Detection (Change dir to $HOME before find commands to handle weird find behavior with escalation.)

Plugin Feed: 202410100458

Version 1.154

Sep 11, 2024, 5:35 PM

  • New (Detects QUIC servers running on the target. Implement a NASL QUIC library to support detection of HTTP/3 and possibly more)

Plugin Feed: 202409111735

Version 1.153

Sep 3, 2024, 11:47 PM

  • Logic Changes (additional data collection for runtime scanning. fixed logic bug causing potential false negatives. fixed logic bug causing potential false positives. fixed logic bug with potential to break cyberark logins)

Plugin Feed: 202409032347

Version 1.152

Sep 3, 2024, 5:26 PM

  • Detection (Support for Aruba CPPM SSH based local checks)

Plugin Feed: 202409031726

Version 1.151

Aug 14, 2024, 8:33 PM

  • Logic Changes (Endianness fix in Kerberos authentication for SCAP scanning)

Plugin Feed: 202408142033

Version 1.150

Aug 8, 2024, 4:43 PM

  • Logic Changes (Support OpenSSH private key formats for authentication.)

Plugin Feed: 202408081643

Version 1.149

Jul 24, 2024, 6:31 PM

  • Logic Changes (Modernize SSH usage to optimize behavior on Nessus Agents.. adding AI family)

Plugin Feed: 202407241831

Version 1.148

Jul 17, 2024, 11:02 PM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202407172302

Version 1.147

Jul 6, 2024, 12:22 AM

  • Detection (Changes to support Juniper Session Smart Router)

Plugin Feed: 202407060022

Version 1.146

Jul 5, 2024, 9:04 PM

  • Detection (Adding detection of Juniper SSR devices)

Plugin Feed: 202407052104

Version 1.145

Jun 27, 2024, 9:09 PM

  • New (Deploy nessus_utils binaries on the Nessus Agent)

Plugin Feed: 202406272109

Version 1.144

Jun 21, 2024, 6:31 PM

  • Detection (updated detection for SonicOS devices)

Plugin Feed: 202406211831

Version 1.143

Jun 21, 2024, 2:16 PM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202406211416

Version 1.142

May 20, 2024, 10:13 AM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202405201013

Version 1.141

Mar 19, 2024, 6:40 PM

  • Logic Changes (Improving logging to reduce disk space usage)

Plugin Feed: 202403191840

Version 1.136

Jan 16, 2024, 8:55 PM

  • Logic Changes (Improving debug logging)

Plugin Feed: 202401162055

Version 1.134

Jan 16, 2024, 5:39 PM

  • Detection (Add carrier grade NAT IPs to the IPv4 private address ranges.. Support privacy mode DCOM over Kerberos)
  • Logic Changes (Improving debug logging)

Plugin Feed: 202401161739

Version 1.131

Dec 6, 2023, 12:08 AM

  • Logic Changes (Fixes bug in special case shell handling logic.)

Plugin Feed: 202312060008

Version 1.130

Dec 5, 2023, 9:49 PM

  • Logic Changes (Fixes bug in special case shell handling logic.)

Plugin Feed: 202312052149

Version 1.129

Nov 28, 2023, 11:17 AM

  • Detection (Fixing detection of Cisco Firepower devices)

Plugin Feed: 202311281117

Version 1.128

Nov 27, 2023, 6:11 PM

  • Detection (No longer fall back to the legacy SSH library. Only use the old library explicitly.)

Plugin Feed: 202311271811

Version 1.127

Nov 14, 2023, 4:21 PM

  • Detection (Support SHA2 based encryption for Kerberos)

Plugin Feed: 202311141621

Version 1.127

Nov 27, 2023, 4:16 PM

  • Detection (No longer fall back to the legacy SSH library. Only use the old library explicitly.)

Plugin Feed: 202311271616

Version 1.126

Oct 30, 2023, 1:08 PM

  • Detection (Fixed detection of JUNOS)

Plugin Feed: 202310301308

Version 1.125

Oct 25, 2023, 5:17 PM

  • Detection (Handle SSH exec hang and pagination ctrl codes for PanOS)

Plugin Feed: 202310251717

Version 1.120

Oct 4, 2023, 11:07 PM

  • Detection (Fixed Cisco Firepower detection)

Plugin Feed: 202310042307

Version 1.119

Sep 26, 2023, 8:16 PM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202309262016

Version 1.116

Jul 24, 2023, 7:10 PM

  • Logic Changes (added debugging)

Plugin Feed: 202307241910

Version 1.114

Jul 17, 2023, 5:15 PM

  • Logic Changes (Make torture_cgi library PCP clean and consolidate utf16_to_ascii(). Permit CIDR entries in target priority list)

Plugin Feed: 202307171715

Version 1.112

Jul 10, 2023, 7:11 PM

  • Logic Changes (Restrict ClientHello ciphersuites by encapsulation)

Plugin Feed: 202307101911

Version 1.111

Jul 5, 2023, 9:03 PM

  • Logic Changes (added ingestion and ability of target priority lists for SSH credentials)

Plugin Feed: 202307052103

Version 1.110

Jun 20, 2023, 9:07 PM

  • Logic Changes (Temporarily limit debug logging)

Plugin Feed: 202306202107

Version 1.105

Jun 1, 2023, 5:27 AM

  • Logic Changes (Better logging)

Plugin Feed: 202306010527

Version 1.104

May 18, 2023, 1:08 AM

  • Detection (Port Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch support from ssh_get_info.nasl to ssh_lib as a rate limited device.)

Plugin Feed: 202305180108

Version 1.102

May 16, 2023, 7:02 PM

  • Detection (Authenticate WMI/DCOM using Kerberos credentials.)

Plugin Feed: 202305161902

Version 1.100

May 1, 2023, 9:07 PM

  • Detection (Make and use compatibility wrapper for running commands on scanner localhost to handle deprecation of pread().)

Plugin Feed: 202305012107

Version 1.97

Apr 6, 2023, 6:58 PM

  • Detection (Add Kerberos debug logging)

Plugin Feed: 202304061858

Version 1.95

Mar 8, 2023, 1:05 AM

  • Logic Changes

Plugin Feed: 202303080105

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