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Debian DSA-431-1 : perl - information leak

low Nessus Plugin ID 15268

Synopsis

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

Description

Paul Szabo discovered a number of similar bugs in suidperl, a helper program to run perl scripts with setuid privileges. By exploiting these bugs, an attacker could abuse suidperl to discover information about files (such as testing for their existence and some of their permissions) that should not be accessible to unprivileged users.

Solution

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.6.1-8.6.

We recommend that you update your perl package if you have the 'perl-suid' package installed.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/220486

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-431

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 15268

File Name: debian_DSA-431.nasl

Version: 1.22

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: Low

Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:perl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0618

BID: 9543

DSA: 431