Fedora 20 : perl-DBD-Firebird-1.19-1.fc20 (2015-5601)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82880

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

DBD::Firebird 1.19 [2015-03-22] ===============================

- Fix $VERSION in Firebird.pm

- Fix typo in ISC_PASSWORD spelling

- Positive logic and early return

- Allow re-executing/fetch on prepared sth [RT#92810, Tux]

- Add rests for $dbh->{Name} and others

- Implement $dbh->{Name}

- Fix attributions to Mike Pomraning

- use strict and warnings in all modules

- add a test for inserting/fetching float and double numbers as an attempt to reproduce RT#101650

- fix File::Which configure prerequisite declaration [RT#101672, dmn]

- 03-dbh-attr.t: plan tests after creating the TestFirebird object

- Buffer Overflow in dbdimp.c

- use snprintf instead of sprintf everywhere

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-DBD-Firebird package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207216

http://www.nessus.org/u?7b87336b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82880

File Name: fedora_2015-5601.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/20/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-dbd-firebird, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-5601