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Ubuntu 4.10 : perl vulnerabilities (USN-16-1)
low Nessus Plugin ID 20564
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the perl package. The utility 'instmodsh', the Perl package 'PPPort.pm', and several test scripts (which are not shipped and only used during build) created temporary files in an insecure way, which could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program, or building the perl package, respectively.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.
Solution
Update the affected packages.Plugin Details
Severity: Low
ID: 20564
File Name: ubuntu_USN-16-1.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 1/15/2006
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 2.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 2.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libperl5.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-debug, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-suid, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-modules, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcgi-fast-perl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libperl-dev
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2004
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2004-0976
USN: 16-1