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Fedora 12 : perl-5.10.0-91.fc12 (2010-11340)

high Nessus Plugin ID 48324

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Jul 21 2010 Marcela Maslaova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-91

 - CVE-2010-1168 perl Safe: Intended restriction bypass via object references

 - CVE-2010-1447 perl: Safe restriction bypass when reference to subroutine in compartment is called from outside

 - 576824 RT#73814 - unpack() didn't handle scalar context correctly

 - Resolves: rhbz#588269, rhbz#576508

 - Fri Jul 9 2010 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-90

 - Add Digest::SHA requirement to perl-CPAN and perl-CPANPLUS (bug #612563)

 - Wed Jul 7 2010 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-89

 - Fix perl-5.10.0-Encode-err.patch patch to be applicable

 - Fix incorrect return code on failed extraction by upgrading Archive::Tar to 1.62 (bug #607687)

 - Wed Mar 17 2010 Marcela Maslaova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-88

 - rebuild, e.g. Patch62 is missing in koji build

 - Tue Dec 1 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-87

 - fix patch-update-Compress-Raw-Zlib.patch (did not patch Zlib.pm)

 - update Compress::Raw::Zlib to 2.023

 - update IO::Compress::Base, and IO::Compress::Zlib to 2.015 (#542645)

 - Mon Nov 30 2009 Marcela Maslaova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-86

 - 542645 update IO-Compress-Base

 - Tue Nov 24 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-85

 - back out perl-5.10.0-spamassassin.patch (#528572)

 - Thu Oct 1 2009 Chris Weyl <cweyl at alumni.drew.edu> - 4:5.10.0-84

 - add /perl(UNIVERSAL)/d; /perl(DB)/d to perl_default_filter auto-provides filtering

 - Thu Oct 1 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-83

 - update Storable to 2.21

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected perl package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576508

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588269

http://www.nessus.org/u?0a1b13b6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 48324

File Name: fedora_2010-11340.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1168, CVE-2010-1447

BID: 40302, 40305

FEDORA: 2010-11340