Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Perl Compress::Raw modules: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-200908-07 First vendor Publication 2009-08-18
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2009-08-18
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

An off-by-one error in Compress::Raw::Zlib and Compress::Raw::Bzip2
might lead to a Denial of Service.

Background

Compress::Raw::Zlib and Compress::Raw::Bzip2 are Perl low-level interfaces to the zlib and bzip2 compression libraries.

Description

Leo Bergolth reported an off-by-one error in the inflate() function in Zlib.xs of Compress::Raw::Zlib, possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2009-1391).

Paul Marquess discovered a similar vulnerability in the bzinflate()
function in Bzip2.xs of Compress::Raw::Bzip2 (CVE-2009-1884).

Impact

A remote attacker might entice a user or automated system (for instance running SpamAssassin or AMaViS) to process specially crafted files, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Compress::Raw::Zlib users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose =perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.020

All Compress::Raw::Bzip2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose =perl-core/Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2009-1391 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1391
[ 2 ] CVE-2009-1884 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1884

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13328
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13328
Title: USN-794-1 -- libcompress-raw-zlib-perl, perl vulnerability
Description: It was discovered that the Compress::Raw::Zlib Perl module incorrectly handled certain zlib compressed streams. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted compressed stream or file, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-794-1
CVE-2009-1391
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 9.04
 Product(s): libcompress-raw-zlib-perl
perl
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 16
Application 12

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-12-10 Name : Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:157-1 (perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_157_1.nasl
2009-10-11 Name : SLES11: Security update for Perl
File : nvt/sles11_perl.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8868 (perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_8868.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-8888 (perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_8888.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200908-07 (Compress-Raw-Zlib Compress-Raw-Bzip2)
File : nvt/glsa_200908_07.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:207 (perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_207.nasl
2009-08-17 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:174 (perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_174.nasl
2009-07-29 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-7680 (perl)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_7680.nasl
2009-07-29 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:157 (perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_157.nasl
2009-07-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-805-1 (ruby1.9)
File : nvt/ubuntu_805_1.nasl
2009-07-06 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:012
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_012.nasl
2009-07-06 Name : Ubuntu USN-794-1 (perl)
File : nvt/ubuntu_794_1.nasl
2009-06-23 Name : Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-6033 (perl)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_6033.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
57174 Perl Compress::Raw::Bzip2 Module Bzip2.xs bzinflate() Function Off-by-One Ove...
55041 Perl Compress::Raw::Zlib Module Zlib.xs inflate() Function Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2010-07-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-207.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_perl-090610.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-8868.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-8888.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-20 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200908-07.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_perl-090610.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_perl-090610.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-157.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-7680.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-03 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-794-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-06-24 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-6300.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-06-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-6033.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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