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Debian DSA-034-1 : ePerl - remote root exploit

high Nessus Plugin ID 14871

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Fumitoshi Ukai and Denis Barbier have found several potential buffer overflow bugs in our version of ePerl as distributed in all of our distributions.

When eperl is installed setuid root, it can switch to the UID/GID of the scripts owner. Although Debian doesn't ship the program setuid root, this is a useful feature which people may have activated locally. When the program is used as /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nph-eperl the bugs could lead into a remote vulnerability as well.

Version 2.2.14-0.7potato2 fixes this; we recommend you upgrade your eperl package immediately.

Solution

Upgrade the affected eperl package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-034

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 14871

File Name: debian_DSA-034.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:eperl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2001

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2001-0458

BID: 2464

DSA: 034