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openSUSE Security Update : perl (perl-101)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 40104
Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.Description
Specially crafted regular expressions could crash perl (CVE-2008-1927).Insufficient symlink checks in the File::Path could result in wrong file permissions (CVE-2008-2827).
Additionally problem in the CGI module was fixed that could result in an endless loop if uploads were cancelled.
Solution
Update the affected perl packages.See Also
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372331
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 40104
File Name: suse_11_0_perl-080715.nasl
Version: 1.12
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 7/21/2009
Updated: 1/14/2021
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-1927, CVE-2008-2827