Fedora 11 : sudo-1.7.2p5-1.fc11 (2010-3415)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47313

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- update to new upstream version - backported changes from F-12 - fixes CVE-2010-0426 sudo: sudoedit option can possibly allow for arbitrary code execution [Fedora all] (#567676)

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 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567337

http://www.nessus.org/u?0f577db2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47313

File Name: fedora_2010-3415.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sudo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2010

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0426

CWE: 264

FEDORA: 2010-3415