Fedora 9 : perl-5.10.0-27.fc9 (2008-5739)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33371

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2008-2827 perl: insecure use of chmod in rmtree

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=452635

http://www.nessus.org/u?b5cfcf55

http://www.nessus.org/u?3e6556fd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33371

File Name: fedora_2008-5739.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/2/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2827

BID: 29902

CWE: 264

FEDORA: 2008-5739