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Fedora 8 : perl-5.8.8-39.fc8 (2008-3392)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 32103
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
- Tue Apr 29 2008 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:5.8.8-39- perl-5.8.8-CVE-2008-1927.patch - buffer overflow, when using unicode characters in regexp
- Wed Mar 19 2008 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:5.8.8-38
- 434865 upgrade Test::Simple
- turn off test on loading Dummy in More.t, can't find module (path problem?)
- 238581: careless use of gethostbyname() in Socket.xs
- Thu Mar 13 2008 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:5.8.8-37
- update CGI, because of broken upload method #431774
- Fri Feb 29 2008 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:5.8.8-36
- remove conflicts perl-File-Temp. Use obsoletes.
- Fri Feb 29 2008 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:5.8.8-35
- upgrade Scalar::Util - possible fix for many bugs.
Packages dependent on this module could work even with use of CPAN modules.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected perl package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 32103
File Name: fedora_2008-3392.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 5/1/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
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: 4.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-1927
BID: 28928