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MiracleLinux 4 : sudo-1.8.6p3-19.AXS4 (AXSA:2015-227:01)
low Nessus Plugin ID 289940
Synopsis
The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.Description
The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2015-227:01 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-2014-9680 Fixed bugs:
* Previously, the sudo utility child processes could sometimes become unresponsive because they ignored the SIGPIPE signal. With this update, fixed it.
* Previously, the order in which sudo rules were processed did not honor the user-defined sudoOrder attribute. So, sudo rules were processed in an undefined order even when the user defined the order in sudoOrder. The implementation of SSSD support in sudo has been modified to sort the rules according to the sudoOrder value, and sudo rules are now sorted in the order defined by the user in sudoOrder.
* Previously, sudo became unresponsive after the user issued a command when a sudoers source was mentioned multiple times in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. The problem occurred when nsswitch.conf contained, for example, the sudoers: files sss sss entry. The sudoers source processing code has been fixed to correctly handle multiple instances of the same sudoers source. With this update, fixed it.
Enhancements:
* The sudo utility now supports I/O logs compressed using the zlib library. With this update, sudo can generate zlib compressed I/O logs and also process zlib compressed I/O logs generated by other versions of sudo with zlib support.
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.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Low
ID: 289940
File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2015-227.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Published: 1/16/2026
Updated: 1/16/2026
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 2.2
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 2.1
Temporal Score: 1.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9680
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 3.3
Temporal Score: 3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:sudo
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2015
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2015
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-9680