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Debian DLA-1601-1 : perl security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 119311

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Jayakrishna Menon and Christophe Hauser discovered an integer overflow vulnerability in Perl_my_setenv leading to a heap-based buffer overflow with attacker-controlled input.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 5.20.2-3+deb8u12.

We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00039.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/perl

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 119311

File Name: debian_DLA-1601.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/1/2018

Updated: 7/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18311

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:debian:debian_linux:perl-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libperl-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libperl5.20, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:perl-base, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:perl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:perl-debug, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:perl-modules

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18311

IAVA: 2018-A-0407-S