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Oracle Linux 7 : sudo (ELSA-2016-2593)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 94713

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-2593 advisory.

 [1.8.6p7-20]
 - RHEL 7.3 erratum
 - fixed visudo's -q flag Resolves: rhbz#1350828

 [1.8.6p7-19]
 - RHEL 7.3 erratum
 - removed INPUTRC from env_keep to prevent a potential info leak Resolves: rhbz#1340700

 [1.8.6p7-18]
 - RHEL 7.3 erratum
 - removed requiretty flag from the default sudoers policy
 - backported pam_service and pam_login_service defaults options
 - implemented netgroup_tuple defaults option for changing netgroup processing semantics
 - fixed user matching logic in the LDAP nss backend
 - don't allow visudo to accept an invalid sudoers file
 - fixed a bug causing that non-root users can list privileges of other users
 - modified digest check documentation to mention the raciness of the checking mechanism Resolves: rhbz#1196451 Resolves: rhbz#1247230 Resolves: rhbz#1334331 Resolves: rhbz#1334360 Resolves: rhbz#1261998 Resolves: rhbz#1313364 Resolves: rhbz#1312486 Resolves: rhbz#1268958 Resolves: rhbz#1335039 Resolves: rhbz#1335042 Resolves: rhbz#1335045 Resolves: rhbz#1273243 Resolves: rhbz#1299883

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

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

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-2593.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 94713

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2593.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2016

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7091

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sudo, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sudo-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/22/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7091

RHSA: 2016:2593