Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | Perl vulnerability |
Informations | |||
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Name | USN-222-1 | First vendor Publication | 2005-12-02 |
Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2005-12-02 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 4.6 | Attack Range | Local |
Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
Cvss Expoit Score | 3.9 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) The following packages are affected: perl-base The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 5.8.4-2ubuntu0.5 (for Ubuntu 4.10), 5.8.4-6ubuntu1.1 (for Ubuntu 5.04), or 5.8.7-5ubuntu1.1 (for Ubuntu 5.10). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Jack Louis of Dyad Security discovered that Perl did not sufficiently check the explicit length argument in format strings. Specially crafted format strings with overly large length arguments led to a crash of the Perl interpreter or even to execution of arbitrary attacker-defined code with the privileges of the user running the Perl program. However, this attack was only possible in insecure Perl programs which use variables with user-defined values in string interpolations without checking their validity. |
Original Source
Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-222-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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100 % | CWE-189 | Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
OVAL Definitions
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10598 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10598 | ||
Title: | Integer overflow in the format string functionality (Perl_sv_vcatpvfn) in Perl 5.9.2 and 5.8.6 Perl allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers with large values, which causes an integer wrap and leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using format string vulnerabilities in Perl applications. | ||
Description: | Integer overflow in the format string functionality (Perl_sv_vcatpvfn) in Perl 5.9.2 and 5.8.6 Perl allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers with large values, which causes an integer wrap and leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using format string vulnerabilities in Perl applications. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
Reference(s): | CVE-2005-3962 | Version: | 5 |
Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 CentOS Linux 3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 CentOS Linux 4 Oracle Linux 4 | Product(s): | |
Definition Synopsis: | |||
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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1074 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1074 | ||
Title: | Perl Format String Integer Overflow Vulnerability | ||
Description: | Integer overflow in the format string functionality (Perl_sv_vcatpvfn) in Perl 5.9.2 and 5.8.6 Perl allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers with large values, which causes an integer wrap and leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using format string vulnerabilities in Perl applications. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
Reference(s): | CVE-2005-3962 | Version: | 1 |
Platform(s): | Sun Solaris 10 | Product(s): | Perl |
Definition Synopsis: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Type | Description | Count |
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Application | 2 |
OpenVAS Exploits
Date | Description |
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2009-11-17 | Name : Mac OS X Version File : nvt/macosx_version.nasl |
2009-10-10 | Name : SLES9: Security update for perl File : nvt/sles9p5012473.nasl |
2008-09-24 | Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200512-01 (Perl) File : nvt/glsa_200512_01.nasl |
2008-09-04 | Name : FreeBSD Ports: perl File : nvt/freebsd_perl1.nasl |
2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 943-1 (perl) File : nvt/deb_943_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
Id | Description |
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22255 | OpenBSD Perl Interpreter sprintf Function Local Overflow A local overflow exists in Perl on OpenBSD. The interpreter can be used to cause a buffer overflow. No futher details have been provided. |
21345 | Perl Explicit Format Parameter Index Overflow Perl contains a flaw that when handling a format string containing an explicit format parameter index that exceeds INT_MAX which can result in an illegal memory access. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can cause the crash of a Perl application resulting in a loss of availability. |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
Date | Description |
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2006-10-14 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-943.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2006-07-05 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2005-880.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2006-07-03 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2005-881.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2006-05-13 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates. File : freebsd_pkg_bb33981a7ac611dabf7200123f589060.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2006-01-21 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-222-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2006-01-21 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-222-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2006-01-15 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-225.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2005-12-30 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2005-880.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2005-12-30 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2005-881.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2005-12-30 | Name : The remote host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch File : suse_SA_2005_071.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2005-12-15 | Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2005-1144.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2005-12-15 | Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2005-1145.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2005-12-08 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-200512-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2005-12-07 | Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2005-1113.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2005-12-07 | Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2005-1116.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
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