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CentOS 8 : sudo (CESA-2024:0811)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190850

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2024:0811 advisory.

 - Sudo before 1.9.13 does not escape control characters in log messages. (CVE-2023-28486)

 - Sudo before 1.9.13 does not escape control characters in sudoreplay output. (CVE-2023-28487)

 - Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because application logic sometimes is based on not equaling an error value (instead of equaling a success value), and because the values do not resist flips of a single bit. (CVE-2023-42465)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected sudo package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0811

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190850

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2024-0811.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2024

Updated: 2/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-42465

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sudo, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28486, CVE-2023-28487, CVE-2023-42465

IAVA: 2023-A-0121-S, 2024-A-0068

RHSA: 2024:0811