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openSUSE Security Update : perl (openSUSE-SU-2010:0518-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 48373

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

perl Safe.pm module was affected by two problems where attackers could break out of such a safed execution. (CVE-2010-1447 , CVE-2010-1168)

This update fixes this problem. Also following non-security bugs were fixed :

 - fix tell cornercase [bnc#596167]

 - fix regex memory leak [bnc#557636]

 - do not add vendorlib/auto to filelist [bnc#624628]

 - also run h2ph on /usr/include/linux [bnc#603840]

 - backport h2ph include fix from 5.12.0 [bnc#601242]

Solution

Update the affected perl packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557636

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596167

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=601242

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603840

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605918

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605928

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624628

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-08/msg00042.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 48373

File Name: suse_11_2_perl-100730.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/19/2010

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-base-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2010

Reference Information

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