Debian DSA-1556-2 : perl - heap buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 32057

Synopsis

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

Description

It has been discovered that the Perl interpreter may encounter a buffer overflow condition when compiling certain regular expressions containing Unicode characters. This also happens if the offending characters are contained in a variable reference protected by the \Q...\E quoting construct. When encountering this condition, the Perl interpreter typically crashes, but arbitrary code execution cannot be ruled out.

Solution

Upgrade the perl packages.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.8-7etch3.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 32057

File Name: debian_DSA-1556.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/28/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:perl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1927

BID: 28928

CWE: 399

DSA: 1556

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