Debian DSA-2586-1 : perl - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 63270

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in the implementation of the Perl programming language :

- CVE-2012-5195 The 'x' operator could cause the Perl interpreter to crash if very long strings were created.

- CVE-2012-5526 The CGI module does not properly escape LF characters in the Set-Cookie and P3P headers.

In addition, this update adds a warning to the Storable documentation that this package is not suitable for deserializing untrusted data.

Solution

Upgrade the perl packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 5.10.1-17squeeze4.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63270

File Name: debian_DSA-2586.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/17/2012

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: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:perl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5195, CVE-2012-5526

BID: 56287, 56562

DSA: 2586

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