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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : libapache2-mod-perl2 vulnerability (USN-488-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 28089
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Alex Solovey discovered that mod_perl did not correctly validate certain regular expression matches. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a web application using mod_perl, causing the web server to monopolize CPU resources. This could lead to a remote denial of service.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 libapache2-mod-perl2, libapache2-mod-perl2-dev and / or libapache2-mod-perl2-doc packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 28089
File Name: ubuntu_USN-488-1.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 11/10/2007
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-perl2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-perl2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-perl2-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-1349
BID: 23192