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Debian DSA-943-1 : perl - integer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22809

Synopsis

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

Description

Jack Louis discovered an integer overflow in Perl, Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language, that allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted content that is passed to vulnerable format strings of third-party software.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not seem to be affected by this problem.

Solution

Upgrade the perl packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.4-8sarge3.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341542

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-943

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22809

File Name: debian_DSA-943.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:perl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3962

DSA: 943