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OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : sudo (OVMSA-2016-0170)

high Nessus Plugin ID 95599

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Synopsis

The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

 - Update noexec syscall blacklist

 - Fixes (CVE-2016-7032, CVE-2016-7076) Resolves:
 rhbz#1391937

 - RHEL-6.8 erratum

 - fixed a bug causing that non-root users can list privileges of other users Resolves: rhbz#1312481

 - RHEL-6.8 erratum

 - fixed handling of closefrom_override defaults option Resolves: rhbz#1309976

 - RHEL-6.8 erratum

 - fixed potential getcwd failure, resulting in Null pointer exception Resolves: rhbz#1284886

 - RHEL-6.8 erratum

 - fixed sssd's detection of user with zero rules Resolves:
 rhbz#1220480

 - RHEL-6.8 erratum

 - search also by user id when fetching rules from LDAP Resolves: rhbz#1135531

 - RHEL-6.8 erratum

 - fixed ldap's and sssd's sudoOption value and remove quotes

 - fixed ldap's and sssd's sudoOption whitespaces parse problem Resolves: rhbz#1144422 Resolves: rhbz#1279447

 - RHEL-6.8 erratum

 - removed defaults option requiretty from /etc/sudoers

 - backported pam_service and pam_login_service defaults options

 - implemented a new defaults option for changing netgroup processing semantics

 - fixed visudo's quiet cli option Resolves: rhbz#1248695 Resolves: rhbz#1247231 Resolves: rhbz#1241896 Resolves:
 rhbz#1197885 Resolves: rhbz#1233205

 - added patch to re-introduce old group processing behaviour Resolves: rhbz#1075836

Solution

Update the affected sudo package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?197f5d72

http://www.nessus.org/u?edda9d7a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 95599

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0170.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Published: 12/7/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:sudo, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7032, CVE-2016-7076