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Fedora Core 4 : sudo-1.6.8p8-2.2 (2005-473)

high Nessus Plugin ID 18579

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Jun 21 2005 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 1.6.8p8-2.2

 - fix #161116 - CVE-2005-1993 sudo trusted user arbitrary command execution

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

Solution

Update the affected sudo and / or sudo-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4f5d5ac3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 18579

File Name: fedora_2005-473.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/28/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sudo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sudo-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-473