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HistoryJan 15, 2006 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : sudo vulnerability (USN-213-1)

2006-01-1500:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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Tavis Ormandy discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in sudo.
On executing shell scripts with sudo, the ‘P4’ and ‘SHELLOPTS’ environment variables were not cleaned properly. If sudo is set up to grant limited sudo privileges to normal users this could be exploited to run arbitrary commands as the target user.

Updated packags for Ubuntu 4.10 :.

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

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-213-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(20631);
  script_version("1.16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2959");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"213-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : sudo vulnerability (USN-213-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Tavis Ormandy discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in sudo.
On executing shell scripts with sudo, the 'P4' and 'SHELLOPTS'
environment variables were not cleaned properly. If sudo is set up to
grant limited sudo privileges to normal users this could be exploited
to run arbitrary commands as the target user.

Updated packags for Ubuntu 4.10 :.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected sudo package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sudo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/10/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/01/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/10/25");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! ereg(pattern:"^(4\.10|5\.04|5\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) 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, "Ubuntu", cpu);

flag = 0;

if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"sudo", pkgver:"1.6.7p5-1ubuntu4.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"sudo", pkgver:"1.6.7p5-1ubuntu4.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"sudo", pkgver:"1.6.7p5-1ubuntu4.3")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "sudo");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxsudop-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sudo
canonicalubuntu_linux4.10cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10
canonicalubuntu_linux5.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04
canonicalubuntu_linux5.10cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10