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openSUSE Security Update : perl-HTML-Parser (perl-HTML-Parser-1491)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 43082

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Specially crafted HTML documents could cause perl-HTML-Parser to run into an endless loop (CVE-2009-3627).

Solution

Update the affected perl-HTML-Parser package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550076

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 43082

File Name: suse_11_0_perl-HTML-Parser-091030.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-html-parser, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3627

CWE: 20