MiracleLinux 3 : sudo-1.7.2p1-13.AXS3 (AXSA:2012-350:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 284203

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 3 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2012-350:01 advisory.

Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per- command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell. Features include: the ability to restrict what commands a user may run on a per-host basis, copious logging of each command (providing a clear audit trail of who did what), a configurable timeout of the sudo command, and the ability to use the same configuration file (sudoers) on many different machines.
Security issues fixed with this release:
CVE-2011-0010 check.c in sudo 1.7.x before 1.7.4p5, when a Runas group is configured, does not require a password for command execution that involves a gid change but no uid change, which allows local users to bypass an intended authentication requirement via the -g option to a sudo command.
Fixed bugs:
Running the sudo utility with the -g option when configured not to ask for user's password caused a segmentation fault. This has been fixed.
Added a sudoers entry to the nsswitch.conf file on install (it is deleted on uninstall) so that the sudo tool loads sudoers from an LDAP server afer a sudo upgrade.
Fixed the parsing of the comment characters (#) in the ldap.conf file.
sudo does not format its output to the width of the terminal window when the output is redirected through a pipeline.
Fixed bug in Runas_Spec group matching: the Runas group aliases are honored as expected.
Previously, after switching to an unprivileged user, sudo performed some SELinux related initialization:
this could prevent the correct setup of the SELinux environment and potentially cause an access denial.
Backporting the SELinux related code fixed the problem.
Before reported an execv(3) function failure, sudo performed an auditing call which reset the error state, thus making the tool report a command success. This has been fixed.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 284203

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2012-350.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Miracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/14/2026

Updated: 1/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-0010

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:miracle:linux:sudo, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0010

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