openSUSE Security Update : perl (perl-482)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40105

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This perl update fixes a race condition in rmtree. (CVE-2008-5302)

Solution

Update the affected perl packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450385

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40105

File Name: suse_11_0_perl-090128.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: 6.9

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

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: 1/28/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5302

CWE: 362