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 security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2019:1790 First vendor Publication 2019-07-16
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2019-07-16
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

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

Problem Description:

An update for perl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.5) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.5) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. Description:

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

Security Fix(es):

* perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv() (CVE-2018-18311)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1646730 - CVE-2018-18311 perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv()

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019-1790.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
50 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2
Application 2
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 409
Application 1
Os 159
Os 5
Os 2
Os 1
Os 5
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-9dbe983805.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-ca03363d57.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1601.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4347.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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