openSUSE 11.4: Important Perl Update for DoS and Code Injection
opensuse
March 20, 2013
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.
Description
Perl was updated to fix 3 security issues:
- fix rehash denial of service (compute time) [bnc#804415]
[CVE-2013-1667]
- improve CGI crlf escaping [bnc#789994] [CVE-2012-5526]
- sanitize input in Maketext.pm to avoid code injection
[bnc#797060] [CVE-2012-6329]
Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 11.4:
zypper in -t patch 2013-46
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List
- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64):
perl-5.12.3-11.36.1
perl-base-5.12.3-11.36.1
perl-base-debuginfo-5.12.3-11.36.1
perl-debuginfo-5.12.3-11.36.1
perl-debugsource-5.12.3-11.36.1
- openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64):
perl-32bit-5.12.3-11.36.1
perl-base-32bit-5.12.3-11.36.1
perl-base-debuginfo-32bit-5.12.3-11.36.1
perl-debuginfo-32bit-5.12.3-11.36.1
- openSUSE 11.4 (noarch):
perl-doc-5.12.3-11.36.1
- openSUSE 11.4 (ia64):
perl-base-debuginfo-x86-5.12.3-11.36.1
perl-base-x86-5.12.3-11.36.1
perl-debuginfo-x86-5.12.3-11.36.1
perl-x86-5.12.3-11.36.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5526.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6329.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1667.html
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2013:0502-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE 11.4
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