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CentOS 4 : perl (CESA-2006:0605)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22278

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated Perl packages that fix security a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and Web programming.

Kevin Finisterre discovered a flaw in sperl, the Perl setuid wrapper, which can cause debugging information to be logged to arbitrary files.
By setting an environment variable, a local user could cause sperl to create, as root, files with arbitrary filenames, or append the debugging information to existing files. (CVE-2005-0155)

A fix for this issue was first included in the update RHSA-2005:103 released in February 2005. However the patch to correct this issue was dropped from the update RHSA-2005:674 made in October 2005. This regression has been assigned CVE-2006-3813.

Users of Perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected perl packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d1724583

http://www.nessus.org/u?70d19609

http://www.nessus.org/u?bce6c173

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22278

File Name: centos_RHSA-2006-0605.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/30/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-suidperl, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0155, CVE-2006-3813

BID: 12426

RHSA: 2006:0605