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Amazon Linux AMI : sudo (ALAS-2024-1917)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190027

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of sudo installed on the remote host is prior to 1.8.23-10.58. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2024-1917 advisory.

 2024-02-23: CVE-2023-42465 was removed from this advisory.

 2024-02-23: The severity of this advisory has been changed from important to low.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update sudo' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2024-1917.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190027

File Name: ala_ALAS-2024-1917.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/6/2024

Updated: 1/21/2026

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sudo-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sudo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sudo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/22/2023

Reference Information

IAVA: 2024-A-0068-S