Executive Summary
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Title | perl security and bug fix update |
Informations | |||
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Name | RHSA-2011:0558 | First vendor Publication | 2011-05-19 |
Vendor | RedHat | Last vendor Modification | 2011-05-19 |
Severity (Vendor) | Moderate | Revision | 01 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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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:N/I:P/A:N) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 5 | Attack Range | Network |
Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
Problem Description: Updated perl packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 3. Description: Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. The Perl CGI module provides resources for preparing and processing Common Gateway Interface (CGI) based HTTP requests and responses. It was found that the Perl CGI module used a hard-coded value for the MIME boundary string in multipart/x-mixed-replace content. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to conduct an HTTP response splitting attack via a specially-crafted HTTP request. (CVE-2010-2761) A CRLF injection flaw was found in the way the Perl CGI module processed a sequence of non-whitespace preceded by newline characters in the header. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct an HTTP response splitting attack via a specially-crafted sequence of characters provided to the CGI module. (CVE-2010-4410) It was found that certain Perl string manipulation functions (such as uc() and lc()) failed to preserve the taint bit. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass the Perl taint mode protection mechanism in scripts that use the affected functions to process tainted input. (CVE-2011-1487) These packages upgrade the CGI module to version 3.51. Refer to the CGI module's Changes file, linked to in the References, for a full list of changes. This update also fixes the following bugs: * When using the "threads" module, an attempt to send a signal to a thread that did not have a signal handler specified caused the perl interpreter to terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. With this update, the "threads" module has been updated to upstream version 1.82, which fixes this bug. As a result, sending a signal to a thread that does not have the signal handler specified no longer causes perl to crash. (BZ#626330) * Prior to this update, the perl packages did not require the Digest::SHA module as a dependency. Consequent to this, when a user started the cpan command line interface and attempted to download a distribution from CPAN, they may have been presented with the following message: CPAN: checksum security checks disabled because Digest::SHA not installed. Please consider installing the Digest::SHA module. This update corrects the spec file for the perl package to require the perl-Digest-SHA package as a dependency, and cpan no longer displays the above message. (BZ#640716) * When using the "threads" module, continual creation and destruction of threads could cause the Perl program to consume an increasing amount of memory. With this update, the underlying source code has been corrected to free the allocated memory when a thread is destroyed, and the continual creation and destruction of threads in Perl programs no longer leads to memory leaks. (BZ#640720) * Due to a packaging error, the perl packages did not include the "NDBM_File" module. This update corrects this error, and "NDBM_File" is now included as expected. (BZ#640729) * Prior to this update, the prove(1) manual page and the "prove --help" command listed "--fork" as a valid command line option. However, version 3.17 of the Test::Harness distribution removed the support for the fork-based parallel testing, and the prove utility thus no longer supports this option. This update corrects both the manual page and the output of the "prove --help" command, so that "--fork" is no longer included in the list of available command line options. (BZ#609492) Users of Perl, especially those of Perl threads, are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259 5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 609492 - unknown option fork with prove 626330 - Sending signal to thread without signal handler in thread causes perl to segfault 640716 - Let perl-CPAN Require: perl(Digest::SHA) 640720 - Thread desctructor leaks 640729 - NDBM_File module is missing in perl core 658976 - perl-CGI, perl-CGI-Simple: CVE-2010-2761 - hardcoded MIME boundary value for multipart content, CVE-2010-4410 - CRLF injection allowing HTTP response splitting 692898 - CVE-2011-1487 perl: lc(), uc() routines are laundering tainted data |
Original Source
Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0558.html |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
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67 % | CWE-94 | Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection') |
33 % | CWE-264 | Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls |
OVAL Definitions
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13047 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13047 | ||
Title: | DSA-2265-1 perl -- lack of tainted flag propagation | ||
Description: | Mark Martinec discovered that Perl incorrectly clears the tainted flag on values returned by case conversion functions such as "lc". This may expose preexisting vulnerabilities in applications which use these functions while processing untrusted input. No such applications are known at this stage. Such applications will cease to work when this security update is applied because taint checks are designed to prevent such unsafe use of untrusted input data. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
Reference(s): | DSA-2265-1 CVE-2011-1487 | Version: | 5 |
Platform(s): | Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0 | Product(s): | perl |
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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13932 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13932 | ||
Title: | USN-1129-1 -- perl vulnerabilities | ||
Description: | perl: Larry Wall�s Practical Extraction and Report Language An attacker could send crafted input to Perl and bypass intended restrictions. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
Reference(s): | USN-1129-1 CVE-2010-1168 CVE-2010-1447 CVE-2010-2761 CVE-2010-4411 CVE-2010-4410 CVE-2011-1487 | Version: | 5 |
Platform(s): | Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 10.04 | Product(s): | perl |
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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19764 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19764 | ||
Title: | VMware vSphere and vCOps updates to third party libraries | ||
Description: | CRLF injection vulnerability in the header function in (1) CGI.pm before 3.50 and (2) Simple.pm in CGI::Simple 1.112 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via vectors related to non-whitespace characters preceded by newline characters, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2761 and CVE-2010-3172. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
Reference(s): | CVE-2010-4410 | Version: | 4 |
Platform(s): | VMWare ESX Server 4.1 | Product(s): | |
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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20547 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20547 | ||
Title: | VMware vSphere and vCOps updates to third party libraries | ||
Description: | The multipart_init function in (1) CGI.pm before 3.50 and (2) Simple.pm in CGI::Simple 1.112 and earlier uses a hardcoded value of the MIME boundary string in multipart/x-mixed-replace content, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via crafted input that contains this value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3172. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
Reference(s): | CVE-2010-2761 | Version: | 4 |
Platform(s): | VMWare ESX Server 4.1 | Product(s): | |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
Date | Description |
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2012-08-31 | Name : VMSA-2012-0013 VMware vSphere and vCOps updates to third party libraries. File : nvt/gb_VMSA-2012-0013.nasl |
2012-07-30 | Name : CentOS Update for perl CESA-2011:1797 centos4 x86_64 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1797_perl_centos4_x86_64.nasl |
2012-07-30 | Name : CentOS Update for perl CESA-2011:1797 centos5 x86_64 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1797_perl_centos5_x86_64.nasl |
2012-07-09 | Name : RedHat Update for perl RHSA-2011:0558-01 File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2011_0558-01_perl.nasl |
2012-02-12 | Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201110-03 (bugzilla) File : nvt/glsa_201110_03.nasl |
2011-12-12 | Name : CentOS Update for perl CESA-2011:1797 centos4 i386 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1797_perl_centos4_i386.nasl |
2011-12-12 | Name : CentOS Update for perl CESA-2011:1797 centos5 i386 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1797_perl_centos5_i386.nasl |
2011-12-09 | Name : RedHat Update for perl RHSA-2011:1797-01 File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2011_1797-01_perl.nasl |
2011-08-03 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2265-1 (perl) File : nvt/deb_2265_1.nasl |
2011-05-23 | Name : Mandriva Update for perl MDVSA-2011:091 (perl) File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2011_091.nasl |
2011-05-10 | Name : Ubuntu Update for perl USN-1129-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1129_1.nasl |
2011-04-29 | Name : Fedora Update for perl FEDORA-2011-4918 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_4918_perl_fc13.nasl |
2011-04-22 | Name : Perl Laundering Security Bypass Vulnerability (Windows) File : nvt/gb_perl_sec_bypass_vuln.nasl |
2011-04-19 | Name : Fedora Update for perl FEDORA-2011-4610 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_4610_perl_fc14.nasl |
2011-03-05 | Name : FreeBSD Ports: bugzilla File : nvt/freebsd_bugzilla12.nasl |
2011-02-04 | Name : Fedora Update for bugzilla FEDORA-2011-0741 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_0741_bugzilla_fc14.nasl |
2011-02-04 | Name : Fedora Update for perl-CGI FEDORA-2011-0654 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_0654_perl-CGI_fc13.nasl |
2011-02-04 | Name : Fedora Update for perl-CGI FEDORA-2011-0640 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_0640_perl-CGI_fc14.nasl |
2011-01-31 | Name : Fedora Update for perl-CGI-Simple FEDORA-2011-0653 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_0653_perl-CGI-Simple_fc14.nasl |
2011-01-31 | Name : Fedora Update for perl-CGI-Simple FEDORA-2011-0631 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_0631_perl-CGI-Simple_fc13.nasl |
2011-01-21 | Name : Mandriva Update for perl-CGI MDVSA-2011:008 (perl-CGI) File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2011_008.nasl |
2010-12-28 | Name : Mandriva Update for perl-CGI-Simple MDVSA-2010:252 (perl-CGI-Simple) File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2010_252.nasl |
2010-12-23 | Name : Mandriva Update for perl-CGI-Simple MDVSA-2010:250 (perl-CGI-Simple) File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2010_250.nasl |
2010-12-02 | Name : Perl CGI.pm Header Values Newline Handling Unspecified Security Vulnerability File : nvt/gb_perl_CGI_45145.nasl |
2010-11-23 | Name : Mandriva Update for perl-CGI MDVSA-2010:237 (perl-CGI) File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2010_237.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
Id | Description |
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75047 | Perl Multiple Function Taint Protection Mechanism Bypass |
69589 | CGI.pm header() Function Newline Character Handling HTTP Header Injection CGI.pm contains a flaw related to the 'header()' function's handling of newline characters. This may allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary HTTP headers in a response to the user. |
69588 | CGI.pm multipart_init() Function multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME Type HTTP Hea... CGI.pm contains a flaw related to the 'multipart_init()' function when handing a message with 'multipart/x-mixed-replace' MIME type. This may allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary HTTP headers in a response to the user. |
Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)
Date | Description |
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2012-09-27 | IAVM : 2012-A-0153 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.0 Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0033884 |
2012-09-13 | IAVM : 2012-A-0148 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0033794 |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
Date | Description |
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2016-02-29 | Name : The remote VMware ESX / ESXi host is missing a security-related patch. File : vmware_VMSA-2012-0013_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_4_perl-110506.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_3_perl-CGI-Simple-110127.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_3_perl-CGI-Simple-110107.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_3_perl-110506.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_3_perl-110112.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-11-29 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-201311-17.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-07-12 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-1797.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-08-31 | Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing one or more security-related pat... File : vmware_VMSA-2012-0013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-08-01 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20111208_perl_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-08-01 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20110519_perl_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-12-13 | Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch. File : suse_perl-7507.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-12-12 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2011-1797.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-12-09 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2011-1797.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-10-11 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-201110-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-06-21 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-2265.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-06-13 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-1129-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-05-20 | Name : The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory RHSA-2011-0558 File : redhat-RHSA-2011-0558.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-05-19 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2011-091.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-05-13 | Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch. File : suse_perl-7508.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-05-13 | Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_11_perl-110506.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-05-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_2_perl-110506.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-05-05 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_2_perl-CGI-Simple-110107.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-05-05 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_2_perl-CGI-Simple-110127.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-05-05 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_2_perl-110112.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-04-25 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2011-4918.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-04-18 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2011-4631.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-04-14 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2011-4610.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-02-03 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2011-0755.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-02-03 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2011-0741.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-02-01 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2011-0640.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-02-01 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2011-0654.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-01-31 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2011-0653.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-01-31 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2011-0631.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-01-28 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2011-008.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-01-26 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update. File : freebsd_pkg_c8c927e5289111e08f2600151735203a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-01-21 | Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch. File : suse_perl-7316.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2011-01-21 | Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_11_perl-110112.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2010-11-16 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2010-237.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
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