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SuSE9 Security Update : perl (YOU Patch Number 11964)

high Nessus Plugin ID 41165

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Specially crafted regular expressions could lead to a buffer overflow in perl's regular expressions engine. Scripts processing data from untrusted sources could therefore potentially be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Depending on the purpose of the scripts, the vulnerability can be exploited remotely or locally.

The vulnerability has been tracked by CVE-2007-5116.

Solution

Apply YOU patch number 11964.

See Also

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5116.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 41165

File Name: suse9_11964.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:suse:suse_linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5116

CWE: 119