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Debian: DSA 431-2 Important Update: Fix for Perl Information Leak

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2004
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Debian's DSA 431-2 provides a fix for the perl information leak issue, emphasizing urgent updates for user safety.
DSA 431-1 incorporated a partial fix for this problem

Summary

Paul Szabo discovered a number of similar bugs in suidperl, a helper
program to run perl scripts with setuid privileges. By exploiting
these bugs, an attacker could abuse suidperl to discover information
about files (such as testing for their existence and some of their
permissions) that should not be accessible to unprivileged users.

DSA 431-1 incorporated a partial fix for this problem. This advisory
includes a more complete fix which corrects some additional cases.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 5.6.1-8.7.

For the unstable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version
5.8.3-3.

We recommend that you update your perl package if you have the
"perl-suid" package installed.

Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update th...

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Package: perl

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