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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : sudo vulnerability (USN-956-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47575

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Evan Broder and Anders Kaseorg discovered that sudo did not properly sanitize its environment when configured to use secure_path (the default in Ubuntu). A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root if sudo was configured to allow the attacker to use a program that interpreted the PATH environment variable.

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Solution

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

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/956-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47575

File Name: ubuntu_USN-956-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sudo, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sudo-ldap, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1646

BID: 40538

USN: 956-1