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Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks --> Category: infos
RHSA-2006-0605: perl Vulnerability Scan
Vulnerability Scan Summary
Check for the version of the perl packages
Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Test
Updated Perl packages that fix security a security issue are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.
Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system
administration utilities and Web programming.
Kevin Finisterre discovered a flaw in sperl, the Perl setuid wrapper, which
can cause debugging information to be logged to arbitrary files. By setting
an environment variable, a local user could cause sperl to create, as root,
files with arbitrary filenames, or append the debugging information to
existing files. (CVE-2005-0155)
A fix for this issue was first included in the update RHSA-2005:103
released in February 2005. However the patch to correct this issue was
dropped from the update RHSA-2005:674 made in October 2005. This
regression has been assigned CVE-2006-3813.
Users of Perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
Solution : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0605.html
Threat Level: High
Click HERE for more information and discussions on this network vulnerability scan.
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