RHEL 5 : sudo (RHSA-2009:0267)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35605

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated sudo package to fix a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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

A flaw was discovered in a way sudo handled group specifications in 'run as' lists in the sudoers configuration file. If sudo configuration allowed a user to run commands as any user of some group and the user was also a member of that group, sudo incorrectly allowed them to run defined commands with the privileges of any system user.
This gave the user unintended privileges. (CVE-2009-0034)

Users of sudo should update to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected sudo package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2009-0034

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0267

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35605

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-0267.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/6/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sudo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.3

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0034, CVE-2011-0008

BID: 33517

CWE: 264

RHSA: 2009:0267