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Gentoo: 200212-6 Moderate: Local Exploit in Perl Safe Compartment

A security hole has been discovered in Safe.pm. When a Safe compartment has already been used, there's no guarantee that it's safe any longer, because there's a way for code executed within the Safe compartment to alter its operation mask.. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-6 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : perl SUMMARY : broken safe compartment DATE : 2002-12-20 14:12 UTC EXPLOIT : local - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from "A security hole has been discovered in Safe.pm. When a Safe compartment has already been used, there's no guarantee that it's safe any longer, because there's a way for code executed within the Safe compartment to alter its operation mask. (Thus, programs that use a Safe compartment only once aren't affected by this bug" Mor information is available at [perl #17744] Security-Hole in module Safe.pm SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r9 or sys-devel/5.8.0-r5 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge perl emerge clean ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION If you don't want to or can't upgrade your perl package right away, you can emerge dev-perl/Safe to accomplish the same solution as above. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - GnuPG key is available at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- . The Secure module in Gentoo's Python framework has vulnerabilities, requiring updates to enhance both reliability and performance.. Gentoo Security, Perl Exploit, Safe Compartment Issue. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Dec 20, 2002 Gentoo