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Oracle Linux 6 : sudo (ELSA-2015-1409)

2015-07-3000:00:00
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From Red Hat Security Advisory 2015:1409 :

Updated sudo packages that fix one security issue, three bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged commands, which are used for system management purposes, without having to log in as root.

It was discovered that sudo did not perform any checks of the TZ environment variable value. If sudo was configured to preserve the TZ environment variable, a local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could possibly use this flaw to achieve system state changes not permitted by the configured commands. (CVE-2014-9680)

Note: The default sudoers configuration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux removes the TZ variable from the environment in which commands run by sudo are executed.

This update also fixes the following bugs :

  • Previously, the sudo utility child processes could sometimes become unresponsive because they ignored the SIGPIPE signal. With this update, SIGPIPE handler is properly restored in the function that reads passwords from the user, and the child processes no longer ignore SIGPIPE. As a result, sudo child processes do not hang in this situation. (BZ#1094548)

  • Prior to this update, the order in which sudo rules were processed did not honor the user-defined sudoOrder attribute. Consequently, 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. (BZ#1138581)

  • 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. As a result, sudo no longer hangs when a sudoers source is mentioned multiple times in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (BZ#1147498)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement :

  • 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. (BZ#1106433)

All sudo users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add this enhancement.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2015:1409 and 
# Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-1409 respectively.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(85104);
  script_version("2.12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-9680");
  script_bugtraq_id(72649);
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2015:1409");

  script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 6 : sudo (ELSA-2015-1409)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"From Red Hat Security Advisory 2015:1409 :

Updated sudo packages that fix one security issue, three bugs, and add
one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate
security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the
CVE link in the References section.

The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system
administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute
privileged commands, which are used for system management purposes,
without having to log in as root.

It was discovered that sudo did not perform any checks of the TZ
environment variable value. If sudo was configured to preserve the TZ
environment variable, a local user with privileges to execute commands
via sudo could possibly use this flaw to achieve system state changes
not permitted by the configured commands. (CVE-2014-9680)

Note: The default sudoers configuration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
removes the TZ variable from the environment in which commands run by
sudo are executed.

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* Previously, the sudo utility child processes could sometimes become
unresponsive because they ignored the SIGPIPE signal. With this
update, SIGPIPE handler is properly restored in the function that
reads passwords from the user, and the child processes no longer
ignore SIGPIPE. As a result, sudo child processes do not hang in this
situation. (BZ#1094548)

* Prior to this update, the order in which sudo rules were processed
did not honor the user-defined sudoOrder attribute. Consequently, 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. (BZ#1138581)

* 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. As a result, sudo no
longer hangs when a sudoers source is mentioned multiple times in
/etc/nsswitch.conf. (BZ#1147498)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement :

* 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. (BZ#1106433)

All sudo users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to correct these issues and add this
enhancement."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2015-July/005230.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected sudo packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sudo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sudo-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/04/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/07/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/07/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/OracleLinux")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux 6", "Oracle Linux " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Oracle Linux", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL6", reference:"sudo-1.8.6p3-19.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL6", reference:"sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-19.el6")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "sudo / sudo-devel");
}