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Gentoo GLSA-201311-17 High Severity: Perl Denial of Service Risks

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Calendar Grey November 28, 2013
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Urgent Gentoo notification regarding Perl vulnerabilities leading to potential Denial of Service. Please apply updates immediately to address these security issues.
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Perl, the worst of which could allow a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Perl. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Gentoo high severity software update multiple issues Perl

Resolution

All Perl users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/perl-5.12.3-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-5302 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5302 [ 2 ] CVE-2008-5303 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5303 [ 3 ] CVE-2010-1158 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1158 [ 4 ] CVE-2011-0761 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0761 [ 5 ] CVE-2011-1487 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1487

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201311-17
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: November 28, 2013
Bugs: #249629, #313565, #362025, #386357
ID: 201311-17

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Gentoo high severity software update multiple issues Perl

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Perl, the worst of which could allow a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Perl is Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-lang/perl < 5.12.3-r1 >= 5.12.3-r1

Impact

===== A local attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application. A context-dependent attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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