Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : perl vulnerabilities (USN-1129-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 55090

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that the Safe.pm Perl module incorrectly handled Safe::reval and Safe::rdo access restrictions. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended restrictions and possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-1168, CVE-2010-1447)

It was discovered that the CGI.pm Perl module incorrectly handled certain MIME boundary strings. An attacker could use this flaw to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and perform HTTP response splitting and cross-site scripting attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 10.04 LTS and 10.10. (CVE-2010-2761, CVE-2010-4411)

It was discovered that the CGI.pm Perl module incorrectly handled newline characters. An attacker could use this flaw to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and perform HTTP response splitting and cross-site scripting attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 10.04 LTS and 10.10. (CVE-2010-4410)

It was discovered that the lc, lcfirst, uc, and ucfirst functions did not properly apply the taint attribute when processing tainted input.
An attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended restrictions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 10.04 LTS and 10.10.
(CVE-2011-1487).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55090

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1129-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 6/13/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1168, CVE-2010-1447, CVE-2010-2761, CVE-2010-4410, CVE-2010-4411, CVE-2011-1487

BID: 40302, 40305, 45145, 47124

USN: 1129-1

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