openSUSE Security Update : perl (openSUSE-SU-2010:0519-1)

High Nessus Plugin ID 48372

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

perl Safe.pm module was affected by two problems where attackers could break out of such a safed execution. (CVE-2010-1447 , CVE-2010-1168)

This update fixes this problem. Also the following bugs were fixed :

 - fix tell cornercase [bnc#596167]

 - fix regex memory leak [bnc#557636]

 - also run h2ph on /usr/include/linux [bnc#603840]

 - backport h2ph include fix from 5.12.0 [bnc#601242]

 - fix segfault when using regexpes in threaded apps [bnc#588338]

 - backport upstream fixes for POSIX module to avoid clashes with Fcntl [bnc#446098], [bnc#515948]

 - backport upstream fix for ISA assertion failure [bnc#528423]

 - move unicode files from perl-doc to perl, otherwise some perl modules will not work

Solution

Update the affected perl packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446098

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515948

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528423

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557636

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588338

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596167

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=601242

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603840

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605918

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605928

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-08/msg00043.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 48372

File Name: suse_11_1_perl-100730.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2010/08/19

Updated: 2019/10/25

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 8.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-base-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 2010/07/30

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1168, CVE-2010-1447