Debian DLA-2094-1 : sudo security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 133414

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in sudo, a program designed to provide limited super user privileges to specific users, triggerable when configured with the pwfeedback option enabled. An unprivileged user can take advantage of this flaw to obtain full root privileges.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your sudo packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected sudo, and sudo-ldap packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00002.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/sudo

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 133414

File Name: debian_DLA-2094.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/3/2020

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sudo, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sudo-ldap, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/29/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18634