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Fedora Core 3 : perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 (2005-600)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19290

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Paul Szabo discovered another vulnerability in the File::Path::rmtree function of perl, the popular scripting language. When a process is deleting a directory tree, a different user could exploit a race condition to create setuid binaries in this directory tree, provided that he already had write permissions in any subdirectory of that tree.

Perl interpreter would cause a segmentation fault when environment changes during the runtime.

Code in lib/FindBin contained a regression which caused problems with MRTG software package.

All of the above problems are now fixed in perl-5.8.5-14.FC3. Please test as much as you can and report any problems/regressions.

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, perl-debuginfo and / or perl-suidperl packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d883dcde

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19290

File Name: fedora_2005-600.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/24/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-suidperl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-600