Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | perl security update |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-3982 | First vendor Publication | 2017-09-21 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2017-09-21 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
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:N/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 6.4 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 4.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the implementation of the Perl programming language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2017-12837 Jakub Wilk reported a heap buffer overflow flaw in the regular expression compiler, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted regular expression with the case-insensitive modifier. CVE-2017-12883 Jakub Wilk reported a buffer over-read flaw in the regular expression parser, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or information leak. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 5.20.2-3+deb8u9. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.24.1-3+deb9u2. For the testing distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 5.26.0-8. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 5.26.0-8. We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-119 | Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2018-08-17 | Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates. File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2017-0037.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2018-01-15 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2017-7ae07e9f1f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-11-27 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2017-1304.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-11-27 | Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_SU-2017-3092-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-11-14 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-3478-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-10-18 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2017-2008fdd7e2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-10-03 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2017-89492f7161.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-09-25 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates. File : freebsd_pkg_d9e82328a12911e7987e4f174049b30a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-09-22 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-3982.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2017-09-28 00:24:40 |
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| 2017-09-23 13:22:31 |
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| 2017-09-21 17:22:14 |
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