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CentOS 5 : sudo (CESA-2014:0266)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72910

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated sudo package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The sudo (superuser do) utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root.

A flaw was found in the way sudo handled its blacklist of environment variables. When the 'env_reset' option was disabled, a user permitted to run certain commands via sudo could use this flaw to run such a command with one of the blacklisted environment variables set, allowing them to run an arbitrary command with the target user's privileges. (CVE-2014-0106)

Note: This issue does not affect the default configuration of the sudo package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Red Hat would like to thank Todd C. Miller for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Sebastien Macke as the original reporter.

All sudo users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected sudo package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?65464c75

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72910

File Name: centos_RHSA-2014-0266.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

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: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0106

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sudo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2014

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0106

BID: 65997

RHSA: 2014:0266