openSUSE Security Update : perl (perl-995)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40106

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

A Buffer overflow in perl, in the base Compress::Raw::Zlib perl module has been fixed. (CVE-2009-1391)

Additionaly three non security bugs were fixed.

Solution

Update the affected perl packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40106

File Name: suse_11_0_perl-090610.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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1391

CWE: 189

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