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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.10.2015.0160
Category:Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2015-0160)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'perl-Module-Signature' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2015-0160 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'perl-Module-Signature' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2015-0160 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Updated perl-Module-Signature package fixes the following security
vulnerabilities reported by John Lightsey:

Module::Signature could be tricked into interpreting the unsigned
portion of a SIGNATURE file as the signed portion due to faulty parsing
of the PGP signature boundaries.

When verifying the contents of a CPAN module, Module::Signature
ignored some files in the extracted tarball that were not listed in the
signature file. This included some files in the t/ directory that would
execute automatically during 'make test'

When generating checksums from the signed manifest, Module::Signature
used two argument open() calls to read the files. This allowed embedding
arbitrary shell commands into the SIGNATURE file that would execute
during the signature verification process.

Several modules were loaded at runtime inside the extracted module
directory. Modules like Text::Diff are not guaranteed to be available on
all platforms and could be added to a malicious module so that they
would load from the '.' path in @INC.

Affected Software/OS:
'perl-Module-Signature' package(s) on Mageia 4.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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