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Ubuntu 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : sudo vulnerability (USN-1046-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51643

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Synopsis

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

Description

Alexander Kurtz discovered that sudo would not prompt for a password when a group was specified in the Runas_Spec. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the specified group if sudo was configured to allow the attacker to use a program as this group.
The group Runas_Spec is not used in the default installation of Ubuntu.

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Solution

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

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1046-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51643

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1046-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/21/2011

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

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:10.10, 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: 1/20/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0010

BID: 45774

USN: 1046-1