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: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-201507-11 First vendor Publication 2015-07-10
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2015-07-10
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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Perl allows a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Background

Perl is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language.

Description

S_regmatch() function lacks proper checks before passing arguments to atoi()

Impact

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted input, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Perl users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/perl-5.20.1-r4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-7422 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-7422

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201507-11.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2
Application 1
Os 102

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2015-08-20 IAVM : 2015-A-0199 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apple Mac OS X
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0061337

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-03-03 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2916-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-23 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201507-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-17 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes multiple security vul...
File : macosx_10_10_5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2015-09-24 13:24:34
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-19 00:29:14
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-17 05:29:51
  • Multiple Updates
2015-07-10 13:27:00
  • First insertion