Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | Perl vulnerabilities |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-2916-1 | First vendor Publication | 2016-03-02 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2016-03-02 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | 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
| A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 15.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Perl. Software Description: - perl: Practical Extraction and Report Language Details: It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions with an invalid backreference. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-7422) Markus Vervier discovered that Perl incorrectly handled nesting in the Data::Dumper module. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to consume memory and crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-4330) Stephane Chazelas discovered that Perl incorrectly handled duplicate environment variables. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass the taint protection mechanism. (CVE-2016-2381) Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 15.10: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References: Package Information: |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 33 % | CWE-189 | Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
| 33 % | CWE-119 | Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer |
| 33 % | CWE-20 | Improper Input Validation |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28258 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28258 | ||
| Title: | SUSE-SU-2014:1321-1 -- Security update for perl (low) | ||
| Description: | This update fixes a memory leak and an infinite recursion in Data::Dumper. (CVE-2014-4330) Security Issues: * CVE-2014-4330 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4330> | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | SUSE-SU-2014:1321-1 CVE-2014-4330 | Version: | 3 |
| Platform(s): | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 | Product(s): | perl |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
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 |
|---|---|
| 2017-07-20 | Name : An enterprise management application installed on the remote host is affected... File : oracle_enterprise_manager_jul_2017_cpu.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-01-30 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-75.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-09-19 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2016-1086.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-09-12 | Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_SU-2016-2263-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-09-08 | Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_SU-2016-2246-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-05-11 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates. File : freebsd_pkg_d9f99491165611e694fa002590263bf5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-03-25 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2016-386.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-03-14 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2016-1fb63e3bf3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-03-04 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2016-5d4fc5ecc9.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-03-03 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-2916-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-03-02 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-3501.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 |
| 2015-03-30 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-136.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-01-19 | Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software. File : solaris11_perl_20141120.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-10-24 | Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_11_perl-141022.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-10-22 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-199.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-10-09 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-11428.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-09-29 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-11453.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2016-04-08 21:28:47 |
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| 2016-03-04 13:26:25 |
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| 2016-03-02 17:27:02 |
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| 2016-03-02 17:22:20 |
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