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Gentoo: GLSA-201401-33 High Severity: Perl Digest-Base Code Execution

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Calendar Grey January 29, 2014
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Critical vulnerability detected in Gentoo's Digest-Base Perl library. Users are urged to update immediately to mitigate remote exploitation risks.
A vulnerability has been found in the Digest-Base Perl module, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Summary

The vulnerability is caused due to the "Digest->new()" function not properly sanitising input before using it in an "eval()" call.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity code execution arbitrary code execution Perl module

Resolution

All Digest-Base module users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=perl-core/digest-base-1.170.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-3597 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3597

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201401-33
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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 Digest-Base module: Arbitrary code execution
Date: January 29, 2014
Bugs: #385487
ID: 201401-33

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity code execution arbitrary code execution Perl module

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been found in the Digest-Base Perl module, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

Digest-Base is a set of Perl modules that calculate message digests

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 perl-core/digest-base < 1.170.0 >= 1.170.0

Impact

===== The vulnerability might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.